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This Halloween, it’s time to see scorpions, millipedes and other creepy crawlers in a new light. Using ultraviolet flashlights and light-filtering glasses, a group of community scientists is ...

Astronomers have long searched for clues that a hidden companion star sits out of view near the red supergiant star Betelgeuse. Now, they’ve uncovered a new piece of evidence: a trail like the wake ...

Proteins Mosaic Q is a global citizen-science initiative that invites volunteers to help confirm a newly identified structural pattern in the three-dimensional architecture of proteins. The project ...