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Irving Geis’s revolutionary painting of sperm whale myoglobin illuminated the nascent field of protein structure.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
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Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.
A nuclear war could have profound effects on crops yields around the world, according to a new study.
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
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