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When people think of the plague, they might think of medieval peasants with painful lumps under their arms, being treated by doctors wearing creepy bird-like masks.

We know that air pollution is bad for us, and if we think about it, it's probably obvious that it's particularly bad for our lungs.

When the iconic rock band Queen asked, "Who wants to live forever?" the question was rhetorical, but for many people, the answer was "Yes".

For the first time ever, humanoid robots operated by surgeons have successfully performed laparoscopic gallbladder removal in pigs.

The dinosaurs had a good run, but when their time was up, it was very much up.

Mosses are some of the earliest plants that appeared in the fossil record, but they're anything but simple.

Measles cases in the United States have just passed a "grim milestone", reaching numbers that haven't been seen in 35 years.

It's easy to think of our home galaxy as a relatively stable place, a neatly ordered disk sailing serenely through space like a frisbee - but it may be a lot more turbulent than it looks.

It's probably not news to you that a parasite that causes explosive diarrhea has been surging in the US.

If you've ever walked past a drying lakebed in the peak of summer, you might have noticed some very unpleasant smells emanating from the mud.