Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human ...

You can actually die of a broken heart after the death of a loved one, especially if the grief is overwhelming, new research ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos ...

Republican senators are getting ready to leave Washington without advancing a major sanctions bill against Russia, giving President Trump sole discretion over whether to follow through on his ...

The leopard tortoise of East Africa and South Africa has a striking appearance, with juveniles and young adults living up to ...

The humble modern-day potato, first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, got its start in the Andes mountains before becoming ...

In analysis of 5268 women from the first childbirth, the proportion of treated women began to decline 18 months before childbirth.

Researchers are alarmed after observing a significant drop in the amount of vocalizations from blue whales. As National ...

Donald Trump is hardly the first president to pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates or take some other action the White House deems necessary to boost the economy and shield the ...

In patients with melanoma or non-small cell lung cancer, consuming high levels of the artificial sweetener sucralose ...

A new type of “sweating paint” promises to slash air-conditioning bills and cool homes even in extreme tropical heat ...

Researchers identified specific regions of the human spinal cord where neural activity directly correlates with bladder ...