Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment.

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Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

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Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

Should you go all in on walking—or switch up your workouts during the week? A new study compares the longevity benefits of various types of popular exercises.

Scientists in Belgium—that celebrated bastion of ancient beer culture—are harnessing genetic breakthroughs and machine learning to reimagine how great booze gets built. Here’s how their revelations in ...

The California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund works to prevent animal abuse and strengthen anti-cruelty laws, but they also have a lighter side, regularly releasing their Top Ten Weirdest Animal Laws ...

That matters because while gestational diabetes ends when pregnancy does, its effects may not. The condition can increase the risk of a host of complications, such as preeclampsia, and significantly ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the French aristocracy that he was the royal couple’s long-lost progeny. Some ...