When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

Research says that birth order matters, and there are some health, personality, and emotional traits that belong to ...

Millions of people struggle with lower back pain worldwide. Now, surprising new research from the University of South ...

Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

Youth from low-income families are at a higher risk of suicide than their more well-off peers. But targeted interventions ...

DNA testing shows fins from critically endangered species like hammerheads and oceanic whitetips are flooding Hong Kong ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...