A new paper provides a stark reminder that the virus responsible for COVID-19 is still spreading, with 9 animals out of 47 ...

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt.

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the US were classified as being clinically overweight or obese in ...

A species of wolf in Ethiopia has been filmed unexpectedly licking flowers, suggesting the carnivores could perform the role ...

Decreases in brain volume are used as an indicator of Alzheimer's disease, yet the latest class of Alzheimer's treatments ...

We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan ...

When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large ...

These tire particles are a significant but often-overlooked contributor to microplastic pollution. They account for 28 ...

Antibiotics discovered in the soil of a Cameroon volcano half a century ago have finally been reverse-engineered by Japanese ...

A deposit of high-quality gold ore containing around 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious metal has been ...

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite ( ...