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Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

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A new analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope photos reveals that a peculiar comet slowed its spin before fully reversing ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

A new study finds that in low-oxygen environments, red blood cells absorb more glucose and convert it into a molecule that ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...