Polls show big cultural differences in whether pets are allowed in their owners' beds. But with risks ranging from lost sleep to parasite exposure, what do experts say about when a furry bedtime ...

A large-scale climate simulation combined with fossil evidence shows how shifts in temperature and rainfall guided human migration and evolution. Changes driven by Earth’s orbital cycles altered ...

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Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

Despite decades of public health messaging about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, cases continue to rise, ...

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...