Biology

Following a 14-day mission aboard China’s space station, a female mouse has successfully delivered a litter of nine…

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Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…

A study of anaconda fossils shows that these snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and…

Life has a strange way of thriving in the most extreme places. A peculiar dark-black fungus at the…

New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an…

Scientists have found a way to convert high-energy radiation waste from particle accelerators into a critically scarce medical…

Forget lab-grown burgers. A new genetically tweaked fungus is here, and it’s expected to shape the future of…

‘Space mouse’ successfully gives birth to nine pups after return