The ancient DNA evidence of S. pyogenes, retrieved from the tooth of the Bolivian mummy, is highly fragmented and degraded.

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This surprising finding goes against instinct and conventional wisdom, which suggests closing your eyes shuts out ...

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Common human painkillers significantly change the way Norway lobsters respond to an unpleasant stimulus, scientists have ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

We can now confirm that a sunspot belching out a solar flare is at least as unnerving to listen to as it is to watch.

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years.

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...