A man born with Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disease that causes congenital deafness and progressive blindness, has ...

Previous studies have identified three waves of gene flow between the two human species, with the first interbreeding event taking place some 250,000 to 200,000 years ago. A second hook-up then ...

Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A single injection at birth could offer years of protection against the virus for vulnerable children in high-risk areas.

Scientists conducting research in the waters of Cardigan Bay, Wales were treated to a rare sight recently, as their cameras captured footage of a critically endangered angelshark ( Squatina squatina ) ...

This is the reason why we can’t see what happened at the very beginning of the universe. There is no free path for light to get from the Big Bang to our telescopes. We simply cannot see beyond the ...

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