Millions of cats in the world likely suffer from hip dysplasia, but this cat health problem has rarely been studied. In a newly published... more

Cats have a reputation for being hard to read, but new research from the University of Guelph has found that some people are veritable "cat whisperers"... more

Women and those with veterinary experience were better at recognizing cats' expressions -- even those who reported no strong attachment to cats. The study involved more than 6,300 people from... more

Supermassive black holes are the largest black holes, with masses that can exceed a billion Suns. Just this spring, the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the... more

A new study, published in the journal Animal Welfare, shows that some people are particularly good at identifying feline emotions from cats’ faces; women... more

Black holes in the early universe pose a bit of a problem. Based on observations from telescopes on Earth and in space, we know that some black holes grew to be a... more

Black holes in the early universe pose a bit of a problem. Based on observations from telescopes on Earth and in space, we know that some black holes grew to be a... more

Supermassive black holes, weighing millions or even billions of times our Sun's mass, are still only a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxies they inhabit. But in some cases, the... more

Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be... more

Black tongue is a temporary and harmless condition in which the tongue appears to be covered in hair. In this article, learn about the causes of black tongue,... more

A key feature of life’s diversity is that some species are common but many more are rare. Nonetheless, at global scales, we... more

Thousands of rare diseases cumulatively affect millions of people across the globe, yet because each case is so rare doctors struggle to accurately diagnose and effectively... more

The black holes of Einstein's theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge.... more

Black holes are famous for ripping objects apart, including stars. But now, astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the births of stars over a... more

Theoreticians in two different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit stars like... more

Scientists hunting for neutral hydrogen — a rare molecule that predates every star in the universe — just... more

An international team of data scientists and rare disease specialists write that they've come up with a way to characterize and define diseases so that they eventually would be sharable among physicians... more

Enormous black holes usually affect their surroundings through the so-called ‘negative feedback’ — in other words, suppressing the... more

A rare medical condition caused the bones of a woman's hands and fingers to shrink. more

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exceptionally massive black hole of stellar origin with a mass... more

Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. more

Joscha Legewie, a sociologist at Harvard University has found a link between the killing of unarmed black people... more

An international team headed by Professor LIU Jifeng of the National Astronomical Observatory of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) spotted a stellar black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the sun.... more

Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes -... more

Protoplanetary disks around stars may not be the only site for planet formation in the Universe, according to... more

New research by astrophysicists presents a compelling roadmap for capturing intermediate-mass black hole activity. more

A woman who had been vaping cannabis oil has been diagnosed with rare type of lung scarring usually only seen in metalworkers. more

The Black Death killed over half the population of Europe during the Middle Ages. more

Astrophysicists present a compelling roadmap for capturing intermediate-mass black hole activity. more

A woman who had been vaping cannabis oil has been diagnosed with rare type of lung scarring usually only seen in metalworkers. more