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Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

New research is revealing the secrets of these destructive twisters, which dodge radar scans and often form at night.

Spiders swinging lassos, ants setting deadly traps and turtles with deceiving tongues — these animals have the most cunning methods of hunting their prey.

Here’s the brain science of breaking, the dance style making its Olympic debut in Paris.

Three powerful solar eruptions could bring auroras as far south as New York and Idaho right at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend.

A corrugated exterior wall reflects heat to space and absorbs less heat from the ground, keeping it several degrees cooler than a flat wall.

If left unchecked,”model collapse” could make AI systems less useful, and fill the internet with incomprehensible babble.

Exactly how migraines develop is still coming into focus, but scientists now know that many factors can trigger attacks.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth’s largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.