A 20-year study involving 400,000 participants challenges everything we thought we knew about daily multivitamins and their impact on life expectancy.

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

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The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could someday jump to humans, but many hunters are ...

People talk more about past events than future ones—and memories hold clues for navigating the present The arrival of a new ...

The research should provide insight into how ice age cycles have changed and help in understanding how atmospheric carbon ...

Five questions with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, who warned of “extreme fire danger” in Southern California days ...

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County caught fire. Driven by unusually strong Santa Ana winds, as my colleagues report, five fires ...

Using your phone behind the wheel could be legal in self-driving cars in the future, the Government has been told ...

Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly ...

Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil's lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ecosystems, including the Amazon. "Tapirs move very ...

A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands of ...