According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately one in six children in the ...

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study by researchers ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

During fieldwork in cities in China, I came across a new marital practice, locally described as liang-tou-dun, literally "two ...

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

The spring sun glinted off the cars rolling through Ichetucknee Springs State Park, but the caravan wasn't headed to the park ...

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska.