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It’s a branch of the Smithsonian you may have never heard of — located about an hour outside of D.C. in Edgewater, Maryland. Though it’s off-the-beaten path, the work they’re doing has an impact that ...

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This figure presents a modern tree of Life, highlighting eukaryotes (organisms with complex cells) based on genome-scale analyses from Valt et al. (2025). The newly identified and ancient supergroup ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown, the university’s Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, is part of an international research team whose groundbreaking discovery is ...

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which developed 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago to propel bacteria. Scientists ...

Berry Bros. & Rudd is releasing a Single Malt Japanese Whisky – Shindo Experimental 01 – crafted by Shindo Distillery. Backed by over 200 years of saké tradition and expert selection, this whisky ...

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ / Encores Thursday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. on KPBs 2 and Sunday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV In the Arctic seas between Alaska ...