A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...

In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...

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PelV-1’s story began at Station ALOHA, a long-term monitoring site in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Scientists ...

Keersten Fitzgerald is a GP and a lecturer in the General Practice Clinical School at the University of Sydney. Keersten has ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...

In a clinic in Jaipur, a low, resonant note from a conch shell echoed through the room—and it’s all for an unlikely therapy.

A new study from the University of Edinburgh has found that cats with dementia develop brain changes strikingly similar to ...

This deadly disease was believed to arrive with colonizers — but ancient DNA from Chile proves it was here thousands of years ...

On a hot August night, jellyfish jammed a nuclear giant.