While intentional weight loss can reduce the risk of conditions like heart disease and some cancers, studies also show that ...

Researchers believe they've made a significant step forward in preventing type 1 diabetes, by demonstrating how a pancreatic ...

Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our DNA to this ...

Antarctica's biological systems are also undergoing sudden shifts. Ecosystems both under the sea and on land are being ...

When the COVID pandemic hit, many people turned to the eerily prescient film Contagion (2011) for answers – or at least for ...

In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...

A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean.

Velociraptor has a new cousin, which may have been even more deadly. The new species has been named Shri rapax, and unlike its famous relative it appears to have brandished killer claws on its ...