DAME Deborah James’ science laboratory will be part of a project awarded £20million by Cancer Research UK to test a new way ...

IT’S often hard to know exactly how much sleep you should be getting.  Experts claim most healthy adults need seven to nine hours per night – but this is hardly exact, and it also depends on ...

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

Discovery of many predators feeding on bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals, researchers hope ...

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...