The worrisome rise in colorectal cancer deaths in younger adults is concentrated in people with less education, suggesting ...

Scientists have developed a nasal spray that reduces brain inflammation and restores lost memory function in mice.

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The ancient DNA evidence of S. pyogenes, retrieved from the tooth of the Bolivian mummy, is highly fragmented and degraded.

Contrary to the name, most meteor showers are actually debris from comets. The Lyrids are the leftovers from an icy ball ...

This surprising finding goes against instinct and conventional wisdom, which suggests closing your eyes shuts out ...

Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

Entomologists at Cornell University estimate that East Lawn Cemetery is home to around 5.5 million individual regular miner ...

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

We can now confirm that a sunspot belching out a solar flare is at least as unnerving to listen to as it is to watch.

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...