When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

A staggering 840 million women and adolescent girls worldwide have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or both by an intimate partner or sexual violence by a non-partner at least once in ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction.

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Most people live within reach of stores, the internet, and public roads. But that’s not true everywhere. In some parts of the world, isolation profoundly affects nearly every aspect of daily life.

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...

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There is quite the debate about who reached the North Pole first, but there is no consensus according to Tara Ocean Foundation. Their website noted, “American explorer Richard E. Byrd led several ...

A San Diego man already in custody in connection with a homicide is being investigated as a person of interest after the remains of multiple people were found at a property where he once lived, law ...

It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...