Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

An international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona, the Natural Sciences Museum ...

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...

Marine heat waves are usually seen as destructive events that can disrupt entire ocean ecosystems and trigger massive ...

New research led by the University of Michigan provides utilities and policymakers with forecasts that can help them better ...

A shark that has become a viral sensation in South Korea was coaxed out of a canal in which it was stuck, authorities said on ...

Sitting in his narrow dugout canoe, Jean-Romeo Senguemboli frowned at the meager catch in his nets on the Central African ...