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You might not want to think too much about all the whales that have urinated in the ocean the next time you go to the beach, ...

We could be saying goodbye to long-planned space missions, new weather satellites, and crucial life-saving treatments.

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

This question actually causes a lot of concern for people living with this autoimmune disease, but a new, small study offers ...

We enjoy relaxing activities, and one way of measuring how relaxed (or not) we’re feeling is through taking cortisol samples.

U S health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently made a pretty bold – and misleading – claim about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, stating that it contains “a lot of aborted fetus ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

According to the unknown author, dog’s milk "doth cause a woman to be delivered of her childe before tyme" (read: you risk premature birth by eating Fido’s fermented milk). Camel, mare, and ass milk ...

Agriculture is the most cited cause, but there are many others connected to it that are contributing to the huge die-off of ...