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Inside the body, a 24-hour rhythm, known as the circadian rhythm, quietly coordinates when we sleep, wake, eat and recover.

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, ...

Human bodies are not entirely dark. A growing body of research suggests that every living person emits an ultra‑faint glow, a ...

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Immediately after cardiac death, the most noticeable change is cooling of the body, a process known as algor mortis. Body ...