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A diet rich in the amino acid arginine might help the immune system fend off cancer and infection. In mice, eating a ...

A canopy call, a partial photo and DNA revealed a new primate species — one that may already be at risk of extinction.

Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even after landfall. But a new statistical ...

Nearly 4,000 common variations in DNA are known to affect height, with each one nudging stature up or down a millimeter or so. But a gene variant found in almost 5 percent of Peruvians reduces height ...

Since Jaws was released 50 years ago, great white sharks have, arguably, become the most recognized fish in the ocean. But despite their fame, they’re not the biggest shark species. The largest shark ...

Women who received treatment for autoimmune diseases with CAR T cell therapy went on to have regular pregnancies and healthy ...

A century of hints has suggested the famed red supergiant had a star pal but seeing it amid Betelgeuse’s brightness has been ...

Common dolphins in New Zealand are biologically older than their calendar ages. Trace metals and “forever chemicals” may be ...

We love public science lessons, like the algae debacle that turned Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a ...

The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the ...