Much to Palese's surprise, when they compared the spot pattern of the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu with a variety of other influenza ...

Some parrots in the Amazon no longer sound like they used to when they call out to each other through the trees.

Being able to pretend is a valuable skill throughout life – whether it's playing make-believe as kids or feigning interest in ...

Legal documents are notoriously difficult to parse, and a new study attempts to explain why: the so-called legalese that ...

Human-driven changes to the natural environment have knock-on consequences that aren't immediately obvious: air pollution, ...

Research led by scientists from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that mosquitoes use infrared ...

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the surface ...

Based on their genomes, some scientists think Asgard archaea and our eukaryotic ancestors parted ways around 2 billion years ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancer cases, but this isn't a sexually ...

A newly developed transistor device has shown exceptional levels of resilience in tests, performing so well, in fact, that it ...

These are known as Kuiper Belt objects or KBOs, and astronomers have just found hints of an unexpected rise in their density, ...