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A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.
It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us. But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs.
Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.
This assassin bug's ability to use a tool — bees’ resin — could shed light on how the ability evolved in other animals.
A study of weather on a mountain in Greece reveal that bioparticles in the sky may drive fluctuations in rainfall patterns more broadly.
Introducing captive-bred axolotls to restored and artificial wetlands may be a promising option for the popular pet amphibian.
A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.
Between the end of February and early April, the federal government terminated almost 700 NIH grants equaling $1.81 billion. That’s about 3.3 percent of the NIH’s total operating budget, the ...
The drug varenicline, paired with counseling and text messaging support, helped teens and young adults abstain from vaping in a clinical trial.
A scientist who worked on the National Climate Assessment explains how stopping work on it may make us more vulnerable to extreme weather disasters.
Rosettes made by scraping Tête de Moine, or “monk’s head,” cheese result from variations in the friction between the blade and the cheese.
A new study is among the first to look at whether cold or hot soaks help women’s muscles rebound from extreme exercise.