Lab-grown meat is, technically, real meat (depending on how you define “real”) grown from animal cells in a controlled environment. It starts with a small sample of animal stem cells that multiply in ...

The closest point to Earth is called the perigee, and astrophysicist Fred Espenak defined what we call a supermoon as a full Moon that occurs when the Moon is within 90 percent of its perigee. The ...

It was an unusual contribution to the growing body of evidence that bowhead whales, as well as being among the largest whales, exhibit exceptional longevity, possibly extending to over 200 years – ...

I n a massive win for organ transplantation research, scientists have demonstrated that they can successfully change the blood type of a donor kidney to type O before transplanting it into a ...

“Today’s yogurts are typically made with just two bacterial strains,” said senior study author Leonie Jahn of the Technical University of Denmark in a statement. “If you look at traditional yogurt, ...

Out of the 2,483 remains recovered, many of them could be expected. There were 2,117 bone remains – bearded vultures are the only birds in the world that primarily eat bones – as well as hooves, teeth ...

The famed primatologist, conservationist, and world-renowned animal behaviorist was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

The ocean quahog is a pretty unremarkable-looking clam, reaching around 5 centimeters (2 inches) in size, and yet it can take them over 200 years to get there. The oldest on record was 507 years old, ...

In a new study, scientists look closely into “chemical fossils” in rocks, indicating that sponges were alive more than 541 million years ago. While older evidence of animal life is out there, their ...

Appearing in New Zealand sometime between 700,000 to 1.8 million years ago, everything about this now-extinct beast of a bird was supersized, from its hooked beak down to its tiger paw-sized feet and ...

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per second.

On October 3, Comet 3I/ATLAS will be almost 29 million kilometers (18.006 million miles) from Mars. The European Space Agency will have both Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter look at the ...