Despite more complex reproductive organs and fewer resources, female bodies are built to get through hardship and disease, ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

And Saturday, the show will be even longer, Navy Pier said, with an Independence Day celebration fireworks display presented ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

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The body of a 70-year-old woman who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's disease was found late Tuesday afternoon in the desert near the end of East Speedway.