From European arrival in 1492 and colonization in the 1500s, the introduction of disease, mostly smallpox, resulted in ...

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand's South Island rocky alpine ...

In 2023, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease – ...

It is true that sewing needles have not been definitively linked to Neanderthals. The first needles documented in Eurasia are ...

By tracing powerful radio signals back to  their host galaxies near the beginning of time, astrophysicists have pinpointed ...

Another clue about the whereabouts of the missing matter in the Universe has just emerged from amid the largest local cosmic ...

In cases of a condition called jaundice, a compound called bilirubin turns a person's skin and eyes yellow. It's usually a ...

Some bat species live surprisingly long lives for their diminutive size, and they might be able to teach us a thing or two ...

Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful ...

While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.