Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

Previous studies have identified three waves of gene flow between the two human species, with the first interbreeding event taking place some 250,000 to 200,000 years ago. A second hook-up then ...

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Mauna Loa may hold the record of the largest active volcano, but it turns out it’s not the biggest overall – not by a long ...

“Every species on the planet self-medicates in some way or another,” Michael Huffman, a primatologist now at the Institute of ...

A first-of-its-kind implant has just been granted approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment ...

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the coast of Belize. With a diameter of 318 meters (1,043 feet) and a depth of 124 meters (407 ...

N ew species are all around us, and while some have been hiding away in the foliage of tropical forests, some have been ...

There are also two approved vaccines against chikungunya: a live-attenuated vaccine called IXCHIQ and a virus-like particle ...

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These could help us move away from animal testing in drug discovery and open the door to personalized medicine.