New beavers in west London have prevented flooding to Greenford station three years in a row.

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Five weeks of thorough preparation and mentoring by Tusculum University staff members with local high school students ...

Somewhere west of Pincher Creek, Alta., the vast flatlands of the Canadian Prairies begin to ripple and fold. This is where ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.