Researchers found crocodilians, bats, raccoons and other creatures prowling a Florida town’s storm drains, “like something out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’” one said.

As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

The vets had no symptoms, and one worked only in states where no dairy infections had been reported.

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens.

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.

President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

Here’s what scientists have learned about how a dog’s breed affects its health and behavior.

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want to).

Shock and grief rippled through the health community as lifelines for care were abruptly severed.

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.”

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

Faced with a rash of shark deaths marked by brain swelling, Canadian and American scientists are trying to solve a marine mystery.

Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds.