The Portland Press Herald spoke to 2 dozen experts this summer about the ways increasing heat is affecting Maine's ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of ...

Thermophiles thrive in hydrothermal features where scalding temperatures would burn other life. What can we learn from the ...

This can actually give you diarrhea, which will further dehydrate you. There are some limited exceptions depending on the species, but in general, cacti contain harmful acids and alkaloids that result ...

He instituted sweeping changes, led the church through the pandemic and implored members to "let God prevail." ...

Thanks to its special compounds, coffee can support liver health in at least five different and significant ways, a new ...

Like prairies, most native wetlands, savannahs, and forests have also been degraded or destroyed. Their future depends on ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Because dogs are active for about 20 per cent of the night, co-sleeping can cause "relatively mild reductions in overall ...

With oceans showing dangerous levels of acidity, seven of nine crucial planetary boundaries – the limits beyond which Earth ...

The sign means the eggs come from hens that were vaccinated against salmonella and meet high food safety standards.

Our most plausible creature is the large blood-sucking tick. On Earth, the deer tick Ixodes do swell to the size of a walnut ...