New research reveals cancer cells generate “power waves” of energy helping them move, stretch, and invade more aggressively.

“The sea slug Elysia chlorotica is a small, unassuming creature that performs a remarkable feat: It eats algae and steals its ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Humans have a long history of diving to forage from the seabed and today elite freedivers are reaching greater depths than ...

Viewed this way, “Mind-Body medicine” is the tail wagging the dog, to put it mildly.

McKeever testified he came to the U.S. from Ireland in 1985 on a basketball scholarship and worked various jobs before he ...

There are drawbacks, though: Chicks raised in butt nests are more likely to develop blood cell abnormalities ... author of the recent book Doctors by Nature. Some of these discoveries have trickled up ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are chronic conditions that cause nerve cells to lose function and die over many years. A decade-long, gradual mental decline often precedes this ultimately fatal process.

A pioneering reproductive technology reduced the risk of children inheriting disease-causing mutations in mitochondria, ...