When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, stalking you on weekend hikes or afternoons in ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that could be teaming up with bacteria to thrive off gas bubbling from the seafloor ...

A boil water advisory is in effect in South Jersey due to E. Coli contamination. Learn how to safely use your water during ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has discovered a new group of bioactive natural compounds ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

Dogs part of the Dog Aging Project TRIAD are helping scientists determine whether a drug can increase the healthy life span ...

Researchers investigating the enigmatic and antibiotic-resistant Pandoraea bacteria have uncovered a surprising twist: these ...

Death and life have been considered for millennia as complete opposites, a binary switch with permanent reversal. But ...

Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

Restricting calories has been linked to living longer in many studies, and now it seems that the drug rapamycin has nearly ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.