A new study expands what we know about natural, low-cost ways to remove pollutants from water

About 50 percent of people who reach the age of 85 will develop Alzheimer’s disease

Genetic signatures trace the origin of infection and its potential path through populations, allowing state health departments to track the disease

Our species' ability to occupy diverse and "extreme" settings around the world stands in stark contrast to the ecological adaptations of other hominin taxa

The approach has the potential to dramatically accelerate the design of new drug candidates

Just two weeks without much activity can have a dramatic impact on health from which it is difficult to recover

A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major scientific study

UNSW scientists have shown for the first time that a series of high-profile burial sites in the Pacific, Mediterranean, and northern Scotland were likely related to catastrophic tsunamis

Monoclonal antibodies are proteins manufactured in the laboratory that can target specific disease cells, viruses, and other antigens 

Bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions that have hit larger forms of life on Earth