Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

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Maze Therapeutics, a kidney disease therapy developer, recently IPO-ed with a market cap of $487mn and significant early-stage investor backing. Lead asset MZE829 targets APOL1 Kidney Disease, showing ...

Cool science: Researchers craft tiny biological tools using frozen ethanol by Eric Stann, University of Missouri edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...

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When commuters board a city bus in the Merrimack Valley or Worcester area, they are met with mini-science lessons created by a dozen local students. The students, who range in grades from kindergarten ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The annual Cool Science festival comes back to Colorado Springs Saturday, Sept. 24. with a goal of making science fun. "We look at this as what's often referred to as ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we missed. This ...