Some jellyfish possess the extraordinary ability to revert their cells back to an earlier developmental stage, effectively restarting their life cycle instead of dying. The transcript explains how ...

Q: What is the safest way to get a tick out of my dog’s body? Should I use tweezers or gloved hands? Are there ways to ...

How do we learn to avoid bad food? Researchers found that fat cells signal the brain using dopamine to trigger "conditioned ...

Scientists in Siberia have revived a bdelloid rotifer, a microscopic animal, that had been frozen in permafrost for 24,000 ...

A largely overlooked plant compound found in common fruits and vegetables is drawing new scientific attention for its ...

Have you ever eaten something banana-flavored and thought it tasted nothing like a real banana? There's a reason for that, ...

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows, exceptional postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading ...

Hibernation can vary by species. Martin says some hibernators, such as ground squirrels, rewarm—or wake up from hibernation ...

In addition to the artificially induced LSD state, there are other, naturally occurring temporary states in which there is a collapse of the normal routines by which the mind ordinarily processes the ...

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in more than one in ten respiratory samples has raised concern that tuberculosis ...

Necrotic cell death is a fundamental biological process, yet the terminal execution mechanisms of necrosis are still not ...