A bowl of soaked almonds may look simple, almost ordinary. Yet this small habit has travelled through generations for a reason. Many households still soak a handful of almonds overnight and eat them ...

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A parasite called Toxoplasma gondii infects an enormous number of people around the world. Scientists estimate that up to one ...

You’ve seen people sliding into the tube of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine on your favorite medical drama, or maybe you’ve been inside one yourself, waiting as the noisy scanner makes ...

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and surgeons at Penn State have created a new class of biomaterial that can better ...

Researchers uncover how distinct cell populations and fibrotic signals drive permanent scarring after rotator cuff ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

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