Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the ...

Neurons in a brain region linked with substance-use disorders can affect how much pain is felt when stopping chronic opioid ...

Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere, as ...