Long-lost Otodus megalodon vertebrae have reopened questions about the giant shark while exposing the vulnerability of museum ...

Dr Lucia Amoruso and her colleagues found that participants who spoke more languages generally showed younger patterns of ...

Researchers at the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge investigated the question in mice. Their ...

Ecologists describe the interaction as a form of indirect niche construction. An organism changes its surroundings, and ...

When plant nutrients run low, some gut bacteria may turn on their host and begin consuming the intestines’ protective lining.

A sip of sparkling water briefly makes the mouth more acidic, but not nearly as much as sugar-sweetened soda, according to a ...

After a musket ball destroyed his left forearm during the War of 1812, Shadrack Byfield retrieved the amputated limb from a ...

Six royal mummies once considered lost resurfaced in 2020, giving researchers a new opportunity to examine five ancient ...

In blinded zebrafish larvae, a common model for measuring visual acuity, prosthe6 restored saccadic eye movements ...

A Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf could become the first confirmed moon beyond our Solar System.

Keratin helps make that possible. It belongs to a family of proteins known as intermediate filaments, which form durable ...

Between midlife and older age, brain cells undergo unexpected shifts in inflammation and gene regulation. The findings ...