A study on spadenose sharks along the west coast of India reveals that microplastics are pervasive in both gastrointestinal ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Dr. Oma Agbai, a dermatologist and UC Davis associate professor said the risk is "just theoretical” at this time.

Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in life.

In the cliffs of southern Spain sit “ancient nests” built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The “well-preserved” nests hid many ...

The miners use mercury to separate gold from sediment, then dump the sludge back into rivers, where it enters fish eaten by ...

Despite progress in wastewater treatment, PPCPs like medications and personal care products continue to enter ecosystems, ...

With choice comes challenges. Choosing embryos with “better” traits carries echoes of a dark past and leaves us facing tough ...

New Zealand's unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive ...

By Ben Brako Ignorance, in its deepest sense, is not simply the absence of knowledge but a distortion of perception. It blinds human beings to the fundamental truths of existence and encourages us to ...

A new study suggests that the risk of mosquito-borne illness in Brazil will rise significantly by the year 2080, but that ...