The jab that can prevent girls from having pregnancy complications later in life - The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology ...

Unexpected deposits of bacteria have been found inside brain tumors, apparently affecting how the cancers grow and behave, a ...

New study reveals tiny chemical clues in ancient rocks, showing that early life and early photosynthesis appeared much earlier than thought.

The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

A new study by researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology has revealed that endangered Hawaiian monk seals possess a hidden vocal repertoire, using a ...