Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Dr. David Saint-Jacques is taking part in a made-in-Ottawa experiment on bone marrow health during his six-month mission on the International Space Station.

Controlling mosquito-borne illnesses, such as Dengue or West Nile virus, has historically been difficult due to a lack of effective vaccines and concerns about the environmental impact of insecticides.

Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is known to decrease how long the offspring will live and their fecundity.

Honey bees spend hours each day collecting pollen and packing it into tidy bundles attached to their hind legs.

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new way of controlling autonomous cars that integrates prior driving experiences – a system that will help the cars perform more safely in extreme and unknown circumstances.

Visible imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite showed a visible eye remained in Tropical Cyclone Joaninha is it continued moving through the central Southern Indian Ocean.

Shorter intervals between primate births are associated with higher mortality rates in offspring, finds a new study of macaque monkeys.

It’s a question that has captivated naturalists for centuries: Why have some groups of organisms enjoyed incredibly diversity—like fish, birds, insects—while others have contained only a few species—like humans.

Hagfish are slimy bottom-dwellers that live off the carcasses of dead sea creatures and thrive in deep waters where oxygen is hard to come by.

Samples need to be collected from Mars’ surface and returned to Earth for examination to answer our most pressing questions about the red planet, according to a group of international scientists.