The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

How to tell the difference between a common frog and a common toad; Think toads are ugly? Think again – as these stunning ...

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft on ...

High numbers of bear sightings have been reported in South Mississippi recently and there are a number of reasons why.

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy foreign cells and pathogens.

A young mother remains in hospital after being bitten by a shark at Coogee beach in Sydney on Saturday morning. Leah Stewart, 35, was swimming about 30 metres offshore when the shark – believed to be ...

The Poop Museum, the popular science education program that has taught 50,000 curious humans from 80 countries all about poop, is launching its first ever summer "Poop Camp", a week long online ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion—a cellular detonation so fast and complete that the cell vanishes within minutes, leaving no ...

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