In its first 50 days, the Trump administration made sweeping changes to scientific arms of the government like the Department ...

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Tourists to Antarctica are fueling research on some of the tiniest, most influential organisms on Earth: phytoplankton. These ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this ...

They're pushing for more funding to find effective treatments. Researchers are finally starting to make headway but have a ...

There are now two fully approved drugs on the market that can, sometimes, slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

On their second job ever, Collette Yee and her partner were assigned a difficult job: locate transient whale poop in the ...

You've heard of the woolly mammoth. But have you heard of woolly mice? These critters were genetically modified by the Dallas ...

The heists occurred in several California counties, where the alleged thief would load his shopping cart with the expensive ...

He said that he grew up in a house filled with a wide variety of music — his mother's gospel, his father's Caribbean music, jazz from New York City, and the shortwave radio that tuned him into ...