As U.K. health officials grapple with an ongoing surge of “invasive” strep infections in children, the Centers for Disease Control…
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Some American black bears in the western United States have evolved to have cinnamon-colored fur. The new hue is likely…
A dazzling fireball that ended its cosmic journey over central Alberta, Canada could change astronomers’ understanding of how the solar…
The weather outside is frightful: temperatures are plunging over a huge swathe of North America. More than a million US…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The cold and…
In a new study, researchers have taken a close look at three treatment approaches that have been widely believed to…
A timelapse image of the fireball event from start to finish. Credit: Western Meteor Group A cosmic drama unfolded over…
Plants that live on land, such as spinach, grow by using sunlight to perform photosynthesis. How, then, do algae photosynthesize…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “No animals were harmed in the making of this burger.” After the Food and Drug Administration’s…
Some species of gut-dwelling bacteria activate nerves in the gut to promote the desire to exercise, according to a study…
Patients with treatment resistant depression have a 23 per cent higher risk of death than other depressed patients. They also…
Dust from the Arabian Peninsula blew over the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea on 29 September 2011, potentially bringing…
Down Under, season two of Zac Efron’s Down to Earth series, pulls off the trick he was after in the…
By 29 years old, Chris Daniel felt he had it all: a wife, two beautiful children and fulfillment of his…
Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at Washington University in St. Louis showed earlier this year that the amount…
It’s long been believed that Tyrannosaurus rex was a meat-eating maniac while long-necked dinosaurs serenely chomped away at leaves in…
A simple device made of plastic and rubber can be controlled using ripples in water to move around obstacles Technology…
How does gravity affect the passage of time? (Image credit: Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images)Einstein’s theory of general relativity upended…
Three chimpanzees have been shot dead and four remain on the loose after mysteriously escaping from their enclosure in Sweden’s…
Almost 200 species of bacteria, including one that can cause food poisoning, were found on microfibre particles from the Mediterranean…
A gel that has prevented almost all of 1 billion sperm getting past the cervix in sheep could become an…
In a study published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that treating…
Viruses can inflame and disrupt connections between the olfactory system, which governs the sense of smell, and the part of…
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah — is a celebration that happens around the middle of winter…
Researchers of the University of Amsterdam, together with colleagues at the University of Queensland and the Norwegian Institute for Water…
If you’re contemplating a complex problem, think of Occam’s razor, as simplicity is often best. (Image credit: Laurence Dutton via…
The practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation will be put…
Numerous studies over more than two decades have demonstrated a robust relationship between climate and the dynamics of human diseases,…
A man suffering from pain and inflammation in his genitals had parasitic worms dancing inside his scrotum, and doctors caught…
“Many people don’t realize that there are math questions that we don’t know how to answer,” says mathematician Melanie Matchett…