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A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human populations and potentially causing ...
The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this search. However, the signs of life—called biosignatures—that ...
Staphylococcus borealis has been found to be resistant to several different types of antibiotics, posing a potentially significant problem for the elderly.
A perentie lizard in Dallas, an African penguin in Boston and an Oberhasli goat in Chicago are just a few recent examples of animals at zoos and aquariums benefiting recently from acupuncture therapy. As acupuncture has gained ...
Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese is revealing its fascinating and sometimes nauseating contents to the public for the first time.
In 1936, a Central Valley teenager made an incredible discovery.
The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire wolf, a canine species that was wiped out around 10,000 years ago. However, the three animals it ...
The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as species are forced to work together to access life-saving resources, a new doctoral thesis has found.
For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts.
Invasive species have been decimating Australian ecosystems for hundreds of years.
