A spaceship diving into a wormhole (illustrated) is never returning, but it could theoretically send back video from the other side before the hole closes behind it. gremlin/E+/Getty By James R. Riordon 24 hours ago If you ever happen to fall through a wormhole in...

Unlike a lot of the “firsts” among Black Americans earning a Ph.D. in particular fields of science, the first Black evolutionary biologist Ph.D., Joseph L. Graves Jr., is alive and telling his story. North Carolina A&T Univ. By Susan Milius 2 hours ago A Voice in...

A lung infection called histoplasmosis can be caused when the spores of soil fungi called Histoplasma (illustrated) are inhaled. Roger Harris/Science Photo Library/Getty By Tina Hesman Saey 12 seconds ago Three types of fungi that cause serious lung infections and...

Biomedical Writer December 20, 2022 at 9:00 am The U.S. Public Health Service deceived the men in the syphilis study at Tuskegee (several participants shown here) and withheld treatment from those with the disease. “The wounds that were inflicted upon us cannot be...

After mating, a male Philoponella prominens orb weaver spider (reddish brown) will use its front legs to catapult backward and escape becoming lunch for the female (dark brown). S. Zhang By Deborah Balthazar December 20, 2022 at 11:00 am From spiders that catapult...