The Indian Ocean is home to a mountain range longer than the North American Rockies, and yet today, all 5,000 kilometers ...

With their little beady black eyes and dappled gray fur, the mice born in a recent lab experiment in Hong Kong are unlike any ...

A group of orcas off the west coast of North America has brought back a bizarre fashion trend not seen since the late 1980s: ...

The body has a network of daily (circadian) clocks that influences most areas of our health, including sleep and metabolism.

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An ingredient once commonly used in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the tangy taste mixed thoroughly through the beverage was ...

A mystery byproduct of a disinfectant used in the drinking water of more than 113 million people in the US has finally been ...

We're still not sure exactly what causes Alzheimer's disease, but we know what its effects look like, and we're getting ...

We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been habitable, with oceans of ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and ...

Around 5–10% of people with COVID infections go on to experience long COVID, with symptoms lasting three months or more.