Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell ...

Common ways of reporting perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the man-made, so-called forever chemicals that pose environmental and health threats—could underestimate the concentration ...

(a) The central cluster of stars in The Starry Night (1889), left, and the Hyades cluster in Taurus, center. At right, the five stars in the painting (orange) are overlaid on the real stars (blue) ...

A Japanese macaque from a group that experienced a deadly disease outbreak encounters two pieces of food — one placed on a clean surface and one placed on a surface with a visual cue of contamination.

New research suggests the same personality traits associated with toxic corporate leaders today may have been present at the very birth of global capitalism 400 years ago.

Giant manta rays can grow up to nine meters long with a disc size of seven meters across and weigh up to 2,000 kg. This size leaves them with very few natural enemies once they reach adulthood at ...

Tsukuba, Japan—The pancreas is a complex organ comprising multiple cell types that regulate blood glucose levels through hormones, such as insulin, and support digestion by producing digestive enzymes ...

Rutgers researchers are part of an international call for a microbiome moonshot, a massive, coordinated effort to pinpoint how certain microorganisms inside us drive chronic disease and how others can ...

Japanese house bats’ heart rates respond strongly to the sound of their own pups’ cries, but not to the cries of other pups of the same age A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies ...

In a Journal of Internal Medicine study, people who drank tea had a lower risk of vascular disease than non–tea drinkers. Among 485,934 adults in China followed for a median of 9.05 years, there were ...

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe’s major Palaeolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought. An international research team led by ...