Blind and mostly hairless, with front teeth that put beavers to shame, the naked mole-rat is one of the most unusual-looking ...

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones has revealed the key role microbes play in intestinal stem ...

Warming temperatures mean more rats, and the possible spread of more disease between the rodents and people. That has some scientists and municipal governments asking: is birth control part of the ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday warned of a higher risk of hantavirus infection this spring, after Taiwan’s first hantavirus-related death in 26 years was confirmed in Taipei. The ...

You can talk to your vet to see if Maev is right for your dog. Naked mole-rats are not keeping their weirdness on the inside.

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant kangaroo rat are recovering from near-extinction.

The concept of "good fats" and "bad fats" has influenced diet trends, public health policy, and biomedical research for ...

Colin Talbot looks to evolutiopary biology to argue that it is in our nature to co-operate - and that each of us is ourselves a co-op ...

A new study from MoneyGeek analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Transportation to rank every state’s road quality and ...

When cold weather sets in, it’s tempting to assume pest problems go into hibernation along with the garden. Unfortunately, ...

A new study from MoneyGeek analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Transportation to rank every state's road quality and ...

Unrelenting rain Monday glazed the marble steps of the state Capitol. Inside the state Department of Social and Health Services auditorium just a block away, the atmosphere was electric with ...