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Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.

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A new study suggests that ancient microbes once cast as oxygen haters may have actually learned to use the gas, offering a clue to how the first complex cells — and, eventually, all plants and ...

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A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase the risk of disease for 20 subsequent generations - with inherited health problems worsening many generations after exposure. Those ...

Longevity rises to 67 years, yet preventable maternal deaths, and system failures expose a fragile healthcare chain.

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty ...