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Hayabusa2 ferried pristine asteroid samples to Earth in 2020. A new study reveals they contain uracil, a key life building block.

Astrophysicists and archaeologists teamed up to make the discovery using particles emitted by an ancient supernova

Have you ever eaten chicken feet? If you haven’t, you might be surprised to learn there’s actually quite a bit of flesh down there. And scales too! They’re wonderful – and informative – pieces of engineering.

After a quiet start to the season, Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico and then battered the Dominican Republic, leaving more than 1 million people without running water or power.

Donated lungs in vast quantities cannot be transplanted. Researchers at Skane University Hospital and Lund University in Sweden completed an animal study that raises the possibility of using more donor lungs in the future. Read more on Dynamite news:

Despite near total paralysis, surveys suggest most LIS patients are happy. Researchers want that more understood

Despite near total paralysis, surveys suggest most LIS patients are happy. Researchers want that more widely understood.

Water worlds are exoplanets with enough water to form a hydrosphere. They may also be our best chance of finding life off Earth.

Global warming will make them more frequent and more intense, scientists say

Scientists have called mysterious blobs "fascinating and complex" while the new images that have been made could prove to be a "milestone" in seismology, says a Cambridge University scientist

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a novel strategy for identifying potent miniature antibodies, so-called nanobodies, against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The approach led to the discovery of multiple nanobodies that in cell cultures and mice effectively blocked infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The findings, which are described in the journals…