November is Pet Diabetes Month. Signs to look out for are increased drinking, urination, appetite, weight loss, lethargy, and ...

Intestines suffer a lot of wear and tear in their daily service to digestion, requiring constant renewal of their lining.

We're way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these ...

Imagine it's Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you've got to rally.

In new research, physicists have theorized a bold way to change it up by entangling two particles of very different kinds – a ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials the greatest concern are malaria (a parasite), HIV (a virus) and tuberculosis ...

Once upon a time, the fishing town of Gansbaai on the South African coast was something of a mecca for shark-spotters – so heavily populated with the predators that nearby Dyer Island is considered ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto. In a study published in 2023, ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...