A small insect-eating animal is the common ancestor of whales, elephants, dogs, and humans.
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A small insect-eating animal is the common ancestor of whales, elephants, dogs, and humans.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
A company offering experimental stem-cell treatments will carry out its procedures in Mexico after the FDA warned that it would need approval to operate in the U.S.
Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
Elwood Jensen, whose research inspired new treatments for breast cancer, has passed away at age 92.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
After undergoing untested cosmetic surgery that uses stem cells to rejuvenate skin, a woman grew bone fragments in the flesh around one of her eyes.
Three patents on transgenic apes in the European Union will be challenged by animal rights activists.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.