Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

From whales that live for centuries to clams that survive for half a millennium, scientists say some of the planet’s longest-living animals may hold powerful clues to improving human longevity and ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often debilitating autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). This disease causes the immune system to mistakenly attack the protective ...

Education is where young people learn how to see the world, long before they are asked to fix it. Yet for many years, our education systems have focused almost entirely on skills such as calculating, ...

After a heart attack, cardiologists can reopen blocked vessels and restore blood flow, but the muscle cells that died will never be replaced.