For the first time, scientists have created animal cells that can harness sunlight for energy—a feat once thought ...

More than 1,800 animals reside at the Smithsonian's 163-acre National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute ... as you stroll beneath the Orangutan Transport System (called the O Line): You ...

Many experts believed it couldn't be done, but researchers in Japan have successfully introduced chloroplasts into hamster cells.

SAN DIEGO ( KUSI) — Another oarfish has made its way from the deep sea to the coast of San Diego County in Southern ...

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A rare deep-sea oarfish has washed up in California, the third to do so in a few months and only the 22nd since 1901.

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

A drug used to treat glaucoma holds promise in the fight against various forms of dementia, according to University of ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...