What’s lurking in your freezer: a lasagne or deep-frozen pizza? Conservationists rely on freezers too – but they run much ...

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a team of UC Davis researchers tracked the movement of fluorescent particles inside ...

Organic” and “natural” are terms that initially sound good–and are associated with natural and cruelty-free ingredients in ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Place cells are specialized neurons in a brain region known as the hippocampus, which have been found to fire when animals ...

Like most vertebrates, humans only have one heart, which is usually located near the front and middle of the chest, slightly ...

The federal government has launched a new strategy to reduce the number of animals used in regulatory laboratory testing ...

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any ...

Cambridge scientists built a two-part cancer drug that activates only in tumors with high enzyme levels, showing promise in ...