It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

There’s a scientific explanation for why folks let it rip when they’re high in the sky, but it doesn’t make it any less aggravating.

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Surgical Intervention for Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies in Adult Patients: A Case Series. Surgical Science, 16, 182-193.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

When they arrived, they were shocked to find the five-meter (16-foot) male was a spade-toothed whale – “one of the most poorly known large mammalian species of modern times,” said DOC Coastal Otago ...