In 2006, people found bats in New York's Howe Cave that had a peculiar, fuzzy white substance growing on their snouts.

Boeing's crew transport space capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew right after midnight ...

Another person has fallen ill with bird flu in the United States, but this time, public health officials don't know how they ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

Much to Palese's surprise, when they compared the spot pattern of the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu with a variety of other influenza ...

The graviton – a hypothetical particle that carries the force of gravity – has eluded detection for over a century.

Tangles of tau proteins in the brain are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, but recently, these crucial filaments have ...

The wacky Houdini hijinks of a slippery eel have finally been revealed – and caught on film for all the world to see.

As the commercial space industry takes off, there will be accidents and people will die. Polaris Dawn, planned to launch early in September 2024, will be a high-risk mission using only civilian ...

Being able to pretend is a valuable skill throughout life – whether it's playing make-believe as kids or feigning interest in ...

Some parrots in the Amazon no longer sound like they used to when they call out to each other through the trees.

Legal documents are notoriously difficult to parse, and a new study attempts to explain why: the so-called legalese that ...