A striking new resident is settling into a permanent home at Brevard Zoo after being rescued from illegal ownership.

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

How would you live if you knew when you were going to die? When Ben Sasse announced last December that he had been diagnosed ...

The former senator wants to heal the America he’s leaving behind.

With Go, Ovejero points to a recurring class of bugs around nil handling. Go does not distinguish between nillable and ...

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...

Life moves in mysterious ways—and perhaps especially so for organisms that undergo dramatic shifts in levels of ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced ...

Some animals, including yaks and Tibetan antelopes, thrive at high elevations where oxygen levels are low. In humans, however, insufficient oxygen during development can lead to problems such as ...