Minions & Monsters director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions, answers how they reproduce, if they can die, and what ...

The deadly H5 form of bird flu that has cut a swath across North America and elsewhere for the past five years has finally been detected in Australia. So what’s stopping this virus turning into the ...

Areas of East Tennessee are infested with ticks that can carry diseases. Here’s how to avoid them and what to do if you get bitten.

Got a nasty stomach bug that won’t go away? It could be cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that causes weeks of ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kali Kniel, professor of microbial food safety at the University of Delaware, about recent outbreaks of cyclosporiasis across the U.S.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

The honeybee mite, Varroa destructor, finally breached Australia’s biosecurity defences four years ago, and is here to stay. Even more concerning, our standard treatments – such as specialised ...

These bugs are buzzing through the desert and it's all because of monsoon season. But can they predict a storm? Here's what ...

Darwin found sex a mystery. He was perplexed not by the practice—he and his wife, who also happened to be his cousin, had ten children—but by the point of it. Darwin spent the last part of his life ...

India, June 24 -- With the widespread use of generative AI, a UN report which studied 133 AI systems found that 44 per cent demonstrated gender bias, while more than a quarter showed both gender and ...