Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By ...

Parasitic nematodes (commonly known as roundworms) are a large, diverse and poorly studied group of disease-causing organisms that severely impact the health of humans and animals. They infect almost ...

Lions have a variety of ways of communicating with one another. Vocal communication and body language are common ways lions ...

A famous koala detection dog from Australia has officially retired. Conservationists are now searching for a young pup that ...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental health disorder characterized by hallucinations, false and rigid beliefs (i.e., delusions), impaired mental functions, disorganized speech and, in some cases, ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

A U.S. travel ban tied to an Ebola outbreak forced a plane en route to Detroit from Paris to be diverted. Do these bans work?

An Air France flight scheduled to land at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was diverted to Montreal over concerns of a possible ...

The Sin Nombre virus—a hantavirus that can cause a deadly respiratory disease in humans—may be more widespread among rodent ...

A hantavirus that can cause a deadly respiratory illness in humans may be more common in rodent populations in parts of the ...

The Sin Nombre virus – a hantavirus that can cause a deadly respiratory disease in humans – may be more widespread among rodent populations in parts of the Pacific Northwest than previously recognized ...

You have written about the humane concerns of commercial poultry production, but please speak out for the pigs! We had one as a pet when I was growing up, and she was as intelligent and affectionate ...