The virus, spread by ticks, can cause a disease that leads to swelling of the brain and permanent health problems in half of severe cases.

Global health advocates are concerned that the U.S. is halting support for the the Gavi program that immunized roughly 1.1 ...

Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen part of a human cell that could help research on Alzheimer's disease. The new ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

In Richard Heydarian’s column, (see the ”The age of the unthinkable,” 6/17/25), the author has clearly recognized and analyzed the unthinkable situation in the Philippines and worldwide. In ...

A mysterious creature with human-like hands found mummified in a historic building is being probed by scientists - and nobody's quite sure what it is. The mummy, dubbed the Capacabra, was found at ...

And just like humans, robots need to know where they are to reliably navigate from A to B. How far, and for how long, a robot can navigate depends on how much power it consumes over time.

Morgan Stanley updated its "Humanoid 100" stock list to add companies from two sectors: video game developers and cybersecurity firms.

We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory, empathy, and invention. But that line doesn’t always hold. Apes steal territory. Parrots ace memory tests.

Finding switch-like genes with math The recent availability of population-level, RNA-sequencing data from humans has made it possible to systematically identify switch-like genes from dimmer-like ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Gene expression, where cells use the genetic information encoded in DNA to produce proteins, has been thought of as a dimmer light. How much a particular gene gets expressed ...