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STEM cells could lead the way towards an effective cure against HIV/AIDS

Fighting the virus is just half the battle. The other half is repairing the damage.

Willow trees could help clean wastewater and produce drugs, fuel in the process

Waste not, want not?

In two British woodlands, half of the trees were planted by jays

The birds helped regenerate two fields previously used for agriculture.

When South African bees reproduce asexually, they make near-perfect clones of themselves

Why even bother with sexual reproduction?

How art restorers in Italy used bacteria to clean up pesky grime on Michelangelo sculptures

You could say these masterpieces were brought to life.

Clever crows can grasp the concept of 'zero'

Bird sized but not ‘bird-brained’.

Plastic-eating bacteria turns waste into vanilla flavoring

A tasty solution to our plastic waste problem.

Looking 'weird' saves robot lizards from predators

Sometimes being flashy is actually a turn-off to predators. Their loss…

One-way camel trade is keeping another coronavirus at bay, but it could still spark the next pandemic

That’s not a headline I expected to be writing today.

Trained bacteriophages could help us with our drug resistance issues

If you can't beat them -- hire mercenaries.

Puppies are likely born with the ability to communicate with humans

Eight-week-old puppies can understand instructions from humans, such as finger pointing and gazing towards an object.

Frogs lost their teeth more than 20 times in their evolutionary history

They just couldn't seem to make up their mind.

Table corals have an important role to play in reef recovery, but they're also quite vulnerable

Helping to protect them would go a long way.

We're inching closer to a better sunscreen that won't kill corals (unlike our current options)

Work on that summer bod, but be sure to protect it from the sun as well!

Different cities have their own microbial fingerprint, a global study reports

"If you gave me your shoe, I could tell you with about 90% accuracy the city you came from," the authors boast.

Psychedelic-like drug could fix the symptoms of stress without giving you hallucinations

It works incredibly fast -- in mice, so far.

Silver nanoparticles change shape and get 'consumed' when destroying bacteria

We're getting new insight into how this metal acts against pathogens.

Biodiversity loss, fueled by human activity, could take millions of years to recover

This is part of our legacy.

These bizarre deep-sea fish have the blackest skin ever seen

The fish absorb up to 99.95% of the light that hits them.

Swiss researchers develop virus that makes cancer tumors destroy themselves

It should be significantly safer for patients than traditional methods.

We don't really know how many lions there are -- but researchers have an idea to count them

Although lions attract conservation efforts, we're not very good at counting them.

A few million years ago, this giant saber-toothed cat hunted rhinos in North America

Not your average cat.

Citrus fruit stands poised to make transparent wood more sustainable, stronger, and more transparent

This is a whole new level of 'when life gives you lemons'.

Genetically modified grass saves soils destroyed by military target practice

GMOs to the rescue!

Farming algae could surprisingly help stave off deadly algae blooms

If you can't beat them... sow them? In water? Could work.

Adult T-Rexs likely couldn't keep up with their offspring, judging from their paw prints

Parents everywhere can probably relate.

A pack of ...T-Rex? Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs like wolves, study finds

The solitary king of the dinosaurs may have not been that solitary after all.

How the jewel beetle's shiny shell helps it hide in plain sight

Their shimmery wings actually act as camouflage.

Tarantulas are *everywhere* and now researchers know why

Turns out, they emerged in the Cretaceous, when T-Rex still roamed the land.

Researchers uncover the oldest known species with opposable thumbs -- a dinosaur in China

They nicknamed it 'Monkeydactyl', just in case you thought researchers act like adults.

Ancient hyenas hunted in the Arctic millions of years ago

As if hyenas weren't scary enough.

Shade from solar panels makes for more and more diverse flowers

Bees everywhere support this message.

Simple seaweed could be used to heal human wounds with bio-ink

Seaweed keeps surprising us with even further virtues

Fossil Friday: microbes discovered deep underground remain virtually unchanged since 175 million years ago

Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.

Modern rainforests were born when the dinosaurs died, a new paper explains

To be honest, I'd rather be around papayas than velociraptors.

Scientists Find New Technique to Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

By administering two doses, one while bacteria are swarming and one while in transition into a biofilm, antibiotic-resistant bacteria were eradicated.

We finally have a vaccine that works against HIV (in early tests)

It was safe and showed efficacy for 97% of the participants in the trial.

How scientists discovered a new law of nature that explains why animals grow 'pointy' parts

Teeth, horns, claws, beaks, shells and even plant prickles — the power cascade rule can be observed far and wide throughout nature, much like the famous golden ratio.

Scientists build artificial cell -- and it grows and divides just like the real thing

This study is stretching the boundaries of life as we know it.

Fossil Friday: we might have found the earliest known cephalopod, extending the family's history by 30 million years

This would make cephalopods one of the earliest multicellular organisms on the planet.

Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself

We all got to eat, right?

Giant Australian flightless bird was 'extreme evolutionary experiment'

It had a massive two-foot beak that squeezed its brain.

Timelapse reveals the hidden dance of roots -- and how mutant plants do it differently

Turns out, watching plants grow is actually quite interesting.

Scientists observe nanobots coordinating inside a living host for the first time

We're talking swarms of millions of bots here.

Researchers find four strains of bacteria on the ISS -- three are completely new to science

Space: the final petri dish.

Ancient lightning could have sparked life on Earth

Lightning -- and not meteorites -- may have seeded life on Earth.

Some mushrooms can squeeze through tiny spaces, but they need to make sacrifices

The fastest-growing mushrooms can't do it, just the more resilient ones.

Artificial eye paves the way for cyborg vision

I spy with my robot eye.

Translucent glass frogs use a never before seen novel form of camouflage

Glass frogs are famous for their see-through skin that can even reveal the amphibians’ internal organs. Surprisingly, not too much attention has been given to this fascinating translucency — until now. An international team of researchers used a combination of field trials and computer-aided modeling and detection to analyze the glass frog’s translucent skin in […]

No body required: sea slugs can regenerate new bodies from their severed heads alone

It's unlike anything that's been seen before.

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