From back pain to wisdom teeth, many of the human body's common problems exist because evolution builds on old designs, a new ...

When back-to-back Kona lows hit the state in March, Alika Garcia got ready to dive. As executive director of Kuleana Coral, a ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

Some donor-conceived people are finding hundreds of siblings. An international cap on donations could help prevent that.

Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in ...

Poison frogs living just a few miles apart along a Colombian river sound nothing alike, and the reason goes far beyond body size. A new study uncovered forces reshaping how these tiny, critically ...

You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months. There are several reasons ...

Grey hair isn't random decline — it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here ...

Depending on the dose, timing and circumstances of exposure, some chemicals in our environment -- both natural and human-made ...

A head of healthy coral being grown at the University of Hawaii’s School of Marine Biology Coral Resilience Lab at Moku o Loe ...

A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

Before Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist, became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, in 1983, she’d never had a ...