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Humans are not the only organisms that have periods — some animals do too, but scientists still aren’t sure why.

Experts tell Live Science what it means to “hit the wall” while exercising and how to avoid it.

NASA’s asteroid-hunting NEOWISE space telescope will soon plunge into Earth’s atmosphere and burn to bits. Here’s a look back at its epic mission that defied all expectations.

Google’s DeepMind has been used to train a robot arm to play table tennis, and it beat human players.

After a magnitude 7.1 temblor jolted southern Japan, the chances of a subsequent, larger quake occurring in the next week had slightly increased, experts said.

Other types of surgery besides double mastectomies are equally good at lowering death rates in women with cancer in one breast.

A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes’ biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.