97-year-old Westel Creager became determined to keep a promise he made years ago. When his great-granddaughter Haiden was going off to college, Westel told her that if she got into medical school, ...

For caregivers of children living with chronic or rare lung diseases, monitoring their condition presents an uncomfortable tradeoff: Repeated scans can be valuable, but they can also expose patients ...

Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in the Tanjung Putting National Park by Thomas Fuhrmann – CC BY-SA 4.0 license Fifteen years ago, conservationists began releasing rescued orangutans into a ...

Screenshots of Secretarybirds with chick that hatched in Chester Zoo England’s Chester Zoo reported last week they successfully bred the stunning secretarybird for the first time in its 95-year ...

One of California’s most famous surfers has four legs and a tail. They call her Rippin’ Rosie. She’s a lovable 5-year-old Labrador Retriever with golden fur and almost 340,000 followers on Instagram. ...

Ospreys are recovering in Britain thanks to “pioneering pairs” who prefer to nest away from the main population, according to new research. It could be key to increasing the proliferation of the ...

A mechanical issue started a fire in a Utah apartment building last week that sent the entire five-story structure ablaze in a matter of minutes. Residents in the Salt Lake City suburb—and their ...

Research from the University of Pennsylvania shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes known to be associated with oral cancer, paving the way for more ...

Early farmers achieved an “engineering wonder of the world” by building a giant irrigation system in South America thousands of years ago. Communities living in what is now Colombia created the ...