An international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona, the Natural Sciences Museum ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an ...

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...

Sitting in his narrow dugout canoe, Jean-Romeo Senguemboli frowned at the meager catch in his nets on the Central African ...

Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

A shark that has become a viral sensation in South Korea was coaxed out of a canal in which it was stuck, authorities said on ...

Although the main prey of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), migratory ungulates such as blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), now spend substantially less time within hyena territories than they ...

Look closely at a face in a painting and you might think you know what emotion the person is experiencing. A smile suggests happiness. A furrowed brow might signal anger. Widened eyes could mean fear ...