D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Laura is an editor and staff writer ...

Mauna Loa may hold the record of the largest active volcano, but it turns out it’s not the biggest overall – not by a long ...

“Every species on the planet self-medicates in some way or another,” Michael Huffman, a primatologist now at the Institute of ...

A first-of-its-kind implant has just been granted approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment ...

N ew species are all around us, and while some have been hiding away in the foliage of tropical forests, some have been ...

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the coast of Belize. With a diameter of 318 meters (1,043 feet) and a depth of 124 meters (407 ...

There are also two approved vaccines against chikungunya: a live-attenuated vaccine called IXCHIQ and a virus-like particle ...

These could help us move away from animal testing in drug discovery and open the door to personalized medicine.

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At first sight, sharks and rays appear to determine sex much like mammals do, but they’ve found a different way, and been ...

“They’re like the songbirds of the Southern Ocean. During the breeding season, if you drop a hydrophone into the water ...