A new tally finds dozens of species willing to give food a second go-round Perfectly normal animals at times eat poop. A baby koala (top left) starting its life of eating chemically defended leaves ma...
A Louisiana man who died with H5N1 contracted it from a backyard flock and wild birds A Louisiana man who died with H5N1 bird flu contracted it from exposure to a backyard flock and wild birds, accord...
The link between drinking alcohol and developing cancer, described in a new report by the U.S. Surgeon General, may come as a surprise to many Americans. Although evidence for this link has been growi...
The results show AI could streamline the cancer screening process AI rivals doctors’ ability to interpret mammograms, a real-world study with nearly 500,000 participants in Germany suggests. Tom Werne...
The effects of PFAS on human health is well studied. Impacts on turtles have now been documented Some freshwater turtles in Australia exposed to PFAS, aka “forever chemicals,” exhibit a range of healt...
The results show AI could streamline the screening process AI rivals doctors’ ability to interpret mammograms, a real-world study with nearly 500,000 participants in Germany suggests. Tom Werner/Getty...
The pair of Kuiper belt objects linked up in a “kiss-and-capture” collision The New Horizons spacecraft flyby in 2015 captured these images of Pluto (lower right) and its large moon Charon (upper left...
The venom acts on distinct molecular targets in mammals and insects Velvet ants deliver a savagely painful sting, prompting their other, more colorful nickname: cow killers. Steve Heap/Getty Images Fe...
The memory center contains sparse but robust nerve cell connections Pyramidal cells (shown) are the main type of nerve cell in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center. Jake Watson Our brain’s memor...
The JUNO experiment will study the ways of the electrically neutral subatomic particles The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (pictured) will study the subatomic particles when it starts up in...
Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...
The spacecraft will make two more close passes in 2025 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (illustrated here) is the closest artificial object to the sun. APL/NASA NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on C...
