Explore the real-life inspirations behind legendary creatures like mermaids, Kraken, Pouakai, dragons, unicorns, and Roc. These mythical beings may have roots in actual animals like manatees, giant ...

Polar bears might be greasier than widely believed. The bears’ greasy fur is the secret to the popular species’ survival in ...

An article published in JAMA Cardiology said a man in his 40s had been suffering from “yellowish nodules” on his palms, soles ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This form of human African trypanosomiasis, the ...

Muscle patches generated from stem cells helped ease heart problems in monkeys and a human patient, in a potential advance ...

"The government cannot be a welfare program for everybody doing low quality, low credibility, irreproducible, low value of information research," says epidemiologist who supports reform of NIH "study ...

In what was a busy and chaotic day even for the newly hatched second Trump administration, late-night hosts were left with a surplus of material. Here’s our round-up of the night’s best lines from ...