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The microscopic marine animal Trichoplax adhaerens may use rapid changes in cell shape to avoid being ripped apart by forces in the ocean.

Environmental groups are concerned and plan litigation.

Eight environmental groups took the legal measure in an effort to protect North Atlantic right whales and other marine organisms.

The recent discovery of 17 people who have inherited maternal and paternal lines of mitochondrial DNA has major ramifications for medical and ancestry research.

Scientists estimate that subterranean organisms constitute a massive amount of carbon, 245 to 385 times greater than that contained in all humans.

Plus, more scientists nowadays spend their entire careers in supporting roles, rather than leading their own research programs.

Two NIH-run labs are affected, including one that seeks to cure HIV.

The weather outside is frightful, but these sciency gifts are delightful.

Fluoxetine dampened stress responses in zebrafish embryos exposed to the drug—and their descendants.

Two professors have been arrested for negligence in connection with the blast.

When researchers removed the reproductive organ, female rats had more difficulty solving a water maze.

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