Lactating armpits, deadly burgers, and the world's nosiest parasite are some of this year's most bizzaro medical tales.

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

Japan`s yakuza face a new threat: tokuryu. Learn how these tech-savvy criminals use online scams & fleeting alliances to dominate the underworld. Click to explore the changing face of crime!

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s hardest questions: what, exactly, makes something alive. His framework for how ...

Parts of the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California’s Cascade Range resemble the gateway to a hellish underworld, with pools of boiling water and bubbling mud where almost nothing can live, due ...

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), higher than ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how right-handed molecules in our cells can give rise to cells that are not symmetrical ...

A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.