A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

A huge surprise in Chile after authorities found a juvenile sea lion in the middle of the steppe of the Torres del Paine ...

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been with us throughout human history. Yet, the greatest parasite now is no blood-sucking ...

The discoveries made in space do not always reach Earth immediately. In fact, the space stations that orbit our planet do so while inside they carry out different experiments that ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

The evolution of a single gene from the bubonic plague microbe allowed it to survive for centuries — and to this very day ...

A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key ...

A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across ...

New research indicates that the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, have evolved to become less deadly over centuries, enabling ...

Research has revealed that the evolution of a single gene in Yersinia pestis - the bacterium that causes bubonic plague - ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a major health threat that kills more than a million people each year. But cancer a ...

Most cancer deaths happen because the cancer cells become resistant to drugs. Adaptive therapies could fix that. Antimicrobial resistance is a major health threat that kills more than a million people ...