Researchers uncover how two mechano-sensing ion channels are essential to maintain healthy stem cells. A new study from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Institut Curie reveals how stem ...

There are two types of poles on Earth: the geographic and magnetic poles. The geographic North Pole "stays at the same place, ...

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is today.

ILM"s Rob Bredow will serve as co-chair of the council, which has been reorganized with an "agile and strategically focused ...

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One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Authorities in Florida have recovered 37 coins worth over $1 million stolen from an 18th-century Spanish shipwreck.

Scientists have discovered a new way of making chocolate that uses the entire cocoa pod to reduce waste and improve farmer ...

Researchers at Acadia University find that wine drinkers are more accepting of pasta sauce formulated with the addition of grape pomace than those who do not drink wine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that Donald Trump’s administration will remove fluoride from drinking water amid claims that it ...

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