New evidence suggests that in southern California, the average urban resident's exposure to plasticizers – the substances ...

The ability of the sea robin to detect and dig out hidden food then led to the discovery that the fish's spindly legs were ...

Further lab tests showed that when MBD6 was blocked, leukemia cancer cells were killed off. This gives experts a new target ...

There are four types of influenza virus: A, B, C and D. Influenza A is known to infect humans and other animals, including ...

What makes these organisms incredibly special is that they have been cut off for billions of years – far longer than any ...

If you want to pinpoint your place in the Universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky ...

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene's devastating impact, this kind of storm was the last thing Florida wanted to see.

Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

A study on the brains of mice has identified a neurological relay race unfolding at meal time, dividing activity into four separate phases that ensure the animals don't eat too much or too little.

Despite their name and gelatinous forms, comb jellies – known for their dazzling, rainbow-refracting, hair-like tentacles – are only distantly related to true jellyfish. These predators are found from ...

The drug is RI-AG03, and it's a peptide inhibitor (a blocker of proteins). In tests on fruit flies and human cells, it has ...

Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a ...