This jellyfish is very small in size. Its height and width are about 4.5 millimeters, which is less than the size of a little fingernail.

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The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have characterized a hidden intermediate state at the center of Src kinase function. This hidden state allows the kinase to repeatedly modify its ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

When 26-year-old Danielle Wilbanks looks at the cost of living, the student loans she’s still carrying and a career path reshaped by the pandemic, she feels like she’s standing on shifting ground.

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The December 2025 issue of "Freshwater Science" will feature a special publication dedicated to the late José Sánchez-Ruiz, a ...

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...