Crash diets have become increasingly popular among America’s home lenders, as the credit squeeze throttles subprime players. On Wednesday, Accredited Home Lenders announced that it will cut its ...

ScienceBlogs is currently powered (and I say that in the most charitable possible sense) by Movable Type 3. This Saturday, we’re upgrading to Movable Type 4, which will mean the following: No ...

I’m a bit sad that this is the first time in two months I don’t have some sort of Walking Dead commentary post to share with you tonight. After a (somewhat anti-climactic) mid-season finale ...

Have you ever heard of a fish that breathes air and “hibernates” to survive? The lungfish is an incredibly unique and resilient fish that has developed lungs to extract oxygen from the air.

SCIENTISTS have identified the mechanism that allows breast cancer cells to lie dormant in other parts of the body only to re-emerge years later with lethal force, according to a recent study. I ...

There's a disturbance in the force. Shares of The Walt Disney Company have closed lower in each of the past six trading days, kicking off 2016 the same way that it closed out 2015. The stock ...

Scientists have found the first tropical mammal that hibernates through hot winter months, when temperatures can fluctuate around an average of 30C. The Madagascan fat-tailed dwarf lemur ...

Worm hibernates to avoid detection Written by Munir Kotadia, Contributor July 13, 2004 at 6:45 p.m. PT The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus ...

A Washington state woman was in for a big surprise when she arrived at her family’s Montana vacation cabin: It was ransacked, and the family’s belongings were strewn everywhere. “My sister ...