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Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

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The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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Researchers have finally found a way to make a real-life levitation ray, but it can only lift microscopic material.

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Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...