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How Your Gut's Mucus Layer Defends Against Bacteria
A thin coat of mucus lining your intestines is one of the body's most important — and least understood — defenses. Here's how it works, what it keeps...
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A thin coat of mucus lining your intestines is one of the body's most important — and least understood — defenses. Here's how it works, what it keeps...
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NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring eerie spider-web-like rock structures on Mars called boxwork formations. Here's what they are, how they form...
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Homo habilis—'handy man'—is one of the oldest known members of the human genus, living roughly 2.4 to 1.65 million years ago. Combining ape-like body...
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids that selectively destroy senescent cells via ferropt...
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Researchers from the University of Queensland and Minnesota have found that young adults with major depressive disorder show a distinctive pattern of...
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New research shows genes account for roughly half of human lifespan variation—far more than scientists believed. Here is what the science of longevity...
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Scientists have uncovered a universal temperature rule that governs all life—from deep-sea bacteria to tropical insects—revealing why evolution cannot...
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Metastasis — the spread of cancer from its original site to distant organs — accounts for more than 90% of cancer deaths. Here is how the process work...
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New research reveals the Sun traveled roughly 10,000 light-years outward from the Milky Way's dangerous inner core billions of years ago — a journey t...
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Chirality—the mirror-image 'handedness' of molecules—is one of chemistry's most consequential properties. It explains a 1960s drug disaster, drives mo...
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For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a neutron star and a black hole spiraled into each other on an elliptical — not circular — orbit, o...
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A landmark study published in Nature Aging has identified structural changes in three blood proteins that can detect Alzheimer's disease years before...
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