One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in bacteriophage ... search of genes that allow it to resist mustard toxins, he discovered ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

New research suggests that Neolithic communities living in the Middle East experimented with recipes and baked large ...

For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the ...

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...

The remains of the mammoth, nicknamed "Yana" after the river in whose basin it was discovered this summer, are the best-preserved mammoth carcass in the world. Scientists have said that the ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the site where one of Alexander the Great's most significant battles occurred more than 2,300 years ago. The research team uncovered the exact location of ...