Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

NAIROBI ― A new killifish species, scientifically known as Nothobranchius sylvaticus, has been documented in seasonal swamps ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

According to the results of a massive new synthesis study of over 2,000 publications, which leaves no room for ambiguity or ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of hantavirus in North ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...