The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

A pet cat in Florida may have made scientific history by enabling the discovery of not one but two new strains of viruses.

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept if habitable ...

New research highlights a crucial time window very early on in life, during which the introduction of eggs and peanut butter ...

This association seems to suggest that Monday anxiety affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the body's main ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely ...

Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests – not in our DNA code ...

The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

And fourth, focus on changing the environment, not just people. We must shift the focus to the systems and structures that ...