The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else ...

Long-distance migration along Peru’s Pacific coast began at least 800 years ago, centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire ...

A new skin-like computing patch developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME ...

A myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, doesn’t just damage the cardiovascular system—it can dramatically reshape how ...

Meaningfully boosting healthspan – the years one lives in good health, free of disease and disability – isn't rocket science.

A new study from the University of Waterloo uses mathematical modelling to examine how Vitamin C affects chemical reactions ...

For a while back there we might be able to avoid the black hole. They’d been lurking as shadows in our theories of gravity ...

Oronde McClain was 10 years old when a drive-by shooting changed the rest of his life. A bullet struck him in the head. He spent eight weeks in a coma. Surgeons removed one-third of his brain. He had ...

A fast-growing population of hybrid or mutant pigs is spreading through abandoned areas near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, according to new research studying the aftermath of the 2011 ...

An experimental diagnostic tool in the form of a computer game was able to quickly identify patients with depression based on ...

The equations that govern black holes were true before there were black holes. That claim is hotly contested, and cuts through one of the deepest fault lines in the philosophy of mathematics. On one ...