Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is driving West Africa's illegal hunting of one of the world's most ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

A protective sugar coating on brain blood vessels, once thought to be insignificant, turns out to play a vital role in ...

Scientists have discovered that your breathing pattern is as unique as a fingerprint and it may reveal more than just your ...

A team at Kobe University has created a game-changing resource for autism research: 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines, each carrying a genetic mutation strongly associated with the disorder. By ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that straddle the line between the orderly structure of crystals and the chaos of ...

Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

Where do microplastics really go after entering the environment? MIT researchers discovered that sticky biofilms naturally ...

Scientists have uncovered how exercise directly influences brain health in Alzheimer's disease by pinpointing the exact brain ...

Teens might finally have a good reason to sleep in on weekends within limits. A new study reveals that teenagers who get up ...

Mercury contamination is surfacing as a serious concern in parts of Georgia and South Carolina, particularly in regions like ...