Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu ...

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The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, ...

An analysis suggests Nanotyrannus is a separate, smaller dinosaur that lived alongside T. rex, settling a 30-year debate ...

Some scientists are concerned that the Trump administration will use “junk science” when reviewing mifepristone’s safety ...

Vosshall and colleagues say that this is a lock-and-key mechanism, in which the gonostyli serve as the key to open the female ...

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new ...

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s ...

Separate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain how parenting both ...

Anthony Vaccaro is a research assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies the neuroscience of emotion in modern contexts.

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet ...