New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

As Vatican officials prepare to lay Pope Francis to rest Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica, members of the College of ...

Pope Francis' lying-in-state has been taken over by people holding up their smartphones in crowds as they try to capture the ...

Unfortunately, this failure to preserve or extract the guys accelerated the putrefaction process, causing the body to bloat with gas due to the mass of bacteria accumulating inside. Eventually ...

As the Vatican prepares to end viewings at St Peter's Basilica at 19:00 local time (18:00 BST), the BBC has spoken to the ...

A massive, never-seen-before creature has been discovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. Learn about its bizarre ...

triseriatus mosquitoes. Once inside the human body, the La Crosse virus can infiltrate the central nervous system, including the brain, and infect and damage neurons there. La Crosse virus disease ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

While Francis’ funeral processions have broken with tradition in a variety of ways — including allowing the public to view his body — the ... his first Chrism Mass inside St Peter’s ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...