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Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

It started as ordinary fieldwork and ended with scientists questioning what they thought they knew. In one of the harshest ...

This hybrid system lets researchers zoom in on living human cells with incredible detail. This offers a new real time insight into how the flu virus operates. For the first time, researchers could ...

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

For years, doctors have known the bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis could also be found on the penis. Yet on paper ...

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