A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

After a run of dud or middling episodes, it's good to see 'The Big Bang Theory' actually turn on the quality here. It might not be perfect (the Howard/Stuart plot is tedious, and Emily as a character ...

Toxoplasma gondii, a.k.a. toxo, is a major cause of vision loss and other serious complications, and it may even alter people ...

A provocative study suggests that Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa may not only be hospitable, but that life from Earth could be ...

Though ostensibly focused on extraterrestrial life, first-contact stories have consistently explored humanity’s attempts to understand forces beyond familiar systems of knowledge. Across more than a ...

Wherever you are reading this, look around you. Every living thing you can see – other people, pets, birds flying past, trees, flowers, mushrooms, fish – is here because of unions between different ...

The characters in The Big Bang Theory, for the most part, are on a whole different intellectual level than most, to put it mildly. We love them, they're funny, but if we’re being honest, when talk ...

Aging parasitologists are working hard to inspire more students to enter the field Hannah Richter In the fall of 1985, Scott L. Gardner found himself standing over his toilet bowl, fishing around in ...

Biological invasions, resulting from human activities, exert substantial impacts on ecosystems worldwide. This review focuses on marine invasive alien species (IAS) in Europe, examining the current ...

The global trade in live wildlife elevates the risk of biological invasions by increasing colonization pressure (the number of alien species introduced to an area). Yet, our understanding of species ...

Obligate avian brood parasites depend entirely on heterospecific hosts for rearing their offspring. From hatching until independence, the young parasites must deal with the challenge of obtaining ...

"They have lost their tissue, their nerve cells, their muscles, everything... And now we find they have lost their ability to breathe." As mammals who rely on a constant supply of oxygen in order to ...