If doomsday comes, know this: precautions have been taken. On an isolated Arctic archipelago, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – aka Norway's 'Doomsday Vault' – holds...
A blood test has been shown to detect five types of cancer years before the diseases could be spotted using conventional diagnostic methods, according to a...
Humans have turned the building of spaces into an art form, but we're not the only species with such dazzling achievements. A particular genus of Southeast Asian...
How did Earth's tectonic plates form? You'd think this would be an easy question to answer, considering we're now trying to nail down the specifics of...
For the first time, the structural protein lattice that allows viruses like HIV to form has been revealed to be a moving, dynamic system, giving researchers...
Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists and health authorities have often observed that children do not appear to contract and transmit the virus...
People who have been seriously unwell and treated on intensive care units can expect to take some months to recover fully, regardless of their ailment.
You'd think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible. That was...
We might have a problem with our roads: researchers have discovered that sunlight and rain might be able to turn certain compounds in asphalt into a...
You'd think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible.