In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Discover the history of our feline friends, and learn about the debate over whether cats are really "domesticated" at all.

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The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

"That capability gap is significantly narrowed, and we've got to change the way we're looking at space, or that capability gap may reverse and not be in our favor anymore." ...

A recent study exposing AI models to carefully designed prompts around trauma revealed they can get anxious, potentially ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an ...

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT ...

One theory is that this behavior comes from a cat's desire to nurse as a kitten. Siamese cats are the most likely to exhibit ...