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The crystal clear images of galaxies far, far away being produced by the James Webb Telescope are stunning. But the groundbreaking information being gathered by scientists as a result of those images is the telescope's greatest benefit.

A Stowers Institute researcher intent on learning how our brains work found that proteins can have more than one effect on what we remember.

Lake sturgeon are ancient creatures that have survived cataclysmic events over millions of years. But scientists worry they might not survive us.

Last month, NASA announced that it had identified 5,000 different exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system. Some of these worlds are unlike anything you'll find in our little corner of the universe.

"Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas" by Jennifer Raff uses DNA evidence to tell how the first peoples came to the Americas.

Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive up to a $2 million grant to research space mining as NASA lays the groundwork for moon research communities.

It may be startling to realize things you did before the pandemic you've now forgotten how to do. For most of us, it doesn't take much time to regain those abilities.

New research from Washington University finds about 90% of immunosuppressed patients vaccinated for the coronavirus produced infection-fighting antibodies, but their immune response was weaker than that of healthy people.

Microbes living in these aquatic environments consume carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker talks about Kevin Strickland and the development of the county's new detention center, and a local competition winner whose ideas could protect thousands of children.

A local young inventor is poised for the global stage with her life-saving invention, for which she won this year's Kansas City Invention Convention.

Vultures fill an integral role in the ecosystem but a number of residents in Salina, Kansas would rather not have the scavenging birds roosting in their trees.