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Some healthy fish have bacteria in their brains

Animals including mammals usually protect their brains from infiltrating microbes that can cause disease. But some fish seem to do just fine.

By Erin Garcia de Jesús3 hours ago

Faded paint on a cave wall appears to show two creatures, one in yellow top left and one in more reds and blues, that create an animal with an elongated body and what appears to be tusks, in blue, near its head region.

Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing

By Bruce Bower3 hours ago

An illustration shows two circles representing subatomic particles, linked by bright lines, on a background showing a particle detector.

Particle Physics

The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

By Emily Conover6 hours ago

A fiery beam of light — emerging from two sides of a black hole — shoots across a dark background strewn with scattered silvery wisps and occasional bright dots representing galaxies.

Space

Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen

By Lisa Grossman6 hours ago

small transluscent orange tubular mitochondria are shown floating on a dark blue background

Mitochondria can sneak DNA into the nuclei of brain cells

By Claudia López Lloreda9 hours ago

An illustration shows a black hole, indicated by warped light, near a planet in the solar system

Physics

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

By Emily ConoverSeptember 17, 2024

A person's grasps a hummingbird skull between their fingers and pokes it into a red flower's cup of petals

Plants

Projectile pollen helps this flower edge out reproductive competition

By Nala RogersSeptember 17, 2024

Spotlight on Health

A man who received an eye and partial face transplant is examined by a doctor

The first face transplant to include an eye shows no rejection a year later

A man who received a partial face transplant that included an eye can’t see out of the eye, but there is blood flow to it.

By Aimee CunninghamSeptember 9, 2024
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Life

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Humans

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Astronomy

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Physics

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Health & Medicine

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Earth

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Science & Society

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