Male primates may be larger than females partly because of pressure from rival groups, not just competition with males inside ...

Uterus transplant surgeon Liza Johannesson was part of the team in Sweden that led to the first birth. She then moved to ...

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...

Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance. It’s a distance of only a few millimeters. But that’s substantial ...

Human-driven carbon pollution is wreaking havoc on the global climate, from bleaching tropical corals to melting polar ice caps. But the amount of carbon in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere barely ...

Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its ...

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is ...

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...

Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.

Rather than reining in the compounds, the FDA may be poised to broaden access, perhapas even adding peptides to supplements.

Flight may be one of evolution’s most iconic innovations, but zoologist Piotr Jablonski is convinced that early wings were ...

A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more ...