WASHINGTON — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that city wildlife might pose less of a threat for future pandemics than once thought. In a study ...

A new social network analysis of female wild red deer on the Isle of Rum in Scotland shows that ageing deer tend to adopt a life of solitude in their advancing years. A multidisciplinary team led by ...

Despite what you may have heard, rats and other city wildlife aren't likely to trigger future pandemics in people, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic has scientists trying to determine ...

All these years, it seems, urban vermin have had a bad rap as the bearers of new diseases. You can blame human bias for that. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change ...

Walnut was born on June 3, 1995, at the start of what would become an unusually hot summer, on an island called Rum (pronounced room), the largest of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. We ...

A team of international researchers, including professors from the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) worked with sources of past zoonotic viruses in order to develop models to predict where ...

Walnut was born on June 3, 1995, at the start of what would become an unusually hot summer, on an island called Rum (pronounced room), the largest of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. We ...

Although COVID-19’s precise origins may always remain a mystery, the disease that has claimed more than 6 million lives, halted global economies, and caused immense suffering most likely came from a ...

In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years. By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine Published Jul 21, 2024 12:00 ...