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A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

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For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...