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adolescent: Someone in that transitional stage of physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of puberty, typically between...

Wounded skin cells scream with slow-motion electric pulses. Such electric spikes are a surprise because only nerve cells were thought...

amino acids: Simple molecules that occur naturally in plant and animal tissues and that are the basic building blocks of...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28 at about 12:50 p.m. local time, leaving at least...

atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon. atom: The basic unit of a chemical element....

One man’s trash is a common coot’s treasure, at least when it comes to plastic. In Amsterdam, the birds have...

biology: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists. cancer: Any of more than...

A baby’s early life has a lot of milestones: first giggle, first tooth, first step. A brain scanning study adds...

adolescence: A transitional stage of physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of puberty, typically between the ages...