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"I'm a huge proponent of free speech, but there's a difference between exercising free speech and an illegal encampment, which is what we had here, disrupt the normal operations of the university and created, quite frankly, an anti-Semitic feel on this campus that we can't tolerate," said Boliek.

“It’s insane,” a biologist says.

This strange microscopic structure may whisper ancient evolutionary secrets.

At the heart of the human microbiome, a team of researchers from Stanford University has recently made a rather surprising discovery: the presence of a class of unprecedented...

Rod-shaped stuctures named ‘Obelisks’ are even smaller than viruses but can still transmit instructions to cells. Rod-shaped stuctures named ‘Obelisks’ are even smaller than viruses but can still transmit instructions to cells.

Scientists have discovered mysterious virus-like ‘obelisks’ in the human gut and mouth. These tiny structures fall into the viroid class and seem to hang out inside of certain strains of bacteria, though not always.

Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.