The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

Like most people, I hate having a cold or the flu. But being sick gets slightly better when a friend drops off some classic movies or goes out for a snack and comes back to throw it up all over me.

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular biologist at the University of Birmingham in England. He is project leader ...