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Once the sculpture’s doors open, the illusion disappears: viewers inspect the reagent containers and find the characteristic ...

The press conferences at COP29 are where high-ranking ministers, diplomats, and advocacy group leaders make hard-hitting ...

Wastewater is full of valuable chemicals. They can be pollution problems when they end up in sewage sludge or mine-tailing ponds. But when isolated from wastewater, those same chemicals can feed ...

Snapping a close-up of a star beyond the sun is no easy task. In fact, astronomers have captured zoomed-in images of only about two dozen stars within the Milky Way. Now a group of scientists ...

Policy changes might affect equipment prices and lab budgets in the US. Here’s what economists and industry analysts are ...

For decades, scientists have known that a mysterious chemical forms when inorganic chloramines are used to disinfect water. But they didn’t know this chemical’s molecular formula or structure.

Small devices placed in the body inspired by cephalopods could be the next step in reducing people’s reliance on needle-injected medications. The devices, detailed in a new paper in Nature, were ...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii is a yeast strain that has been designed for a new purpose: treating colorectal ...