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ISS Commander Peggy Whitson has broken the record for cumulative time spent in space by a NASA astronaut. Whitson is currently serving her third stint aboard the ISS, and with 5 months of her mission remaining, is set to rack up over 650 days in space before touching back down on Earth.

According to WHO, 90 percent of 2015's malaria cases occurred in Africa, as did 92 percent of malaria deaths. It is here that WHO has chosen to trial the world's first malaria vaccine beginning next year, with Ghana, Kenya and Malawi to be the first recipients.

Frog mucus might seem like the kind of flu remedy a witch doctor would suggest, but researchers have found that certain peptides excreted by frogs can fight off human flu strains. As such, they could be used as emergency stand-ins during flu outbreaks when regular vaccines aren’t available.

Warming oceans might sound like a good thing for swimmers, but they're wreaking havoc on marine life. Researchers at UC Davis have found that warming and acidifying waters can cause invertebrate organisms called bryozoa to begin dissolving – and other sea creatures could soon face a similar fate.

They’ve been around for the past 300 million years​, outlasting the dinosaurs and outsmarting our attempts to get rid of them​. Now, Japanese researchers have revealed yet another reason why we have been unable to put a dent in their populations: female solidarity.​​

​​An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a new “super-Earth” exoplanet that could represent our best chance of finding E.T. outside of our solar system.

​What was once a hotspot for the leopards of Africa has experienced an alarming population decline, with new research finding that numbers of the large cats are plummeting due mostly to illegal hunting. If the trend isn't reversed, the animals could be gone in the region within three years.

Modern microwear analysis of the teeth of the infamous big cats known as the man-eating lions of Tsavo indicate that the animals may have developed a taste for human flesh to the point of devouring 135 railway workers in Africa in 1898 due to dental disease.

Concrete might seem like an odd material to make speakers out of, but it's not unheard of. Now, for its first foray into the world of wireless speakers, Master and Dynamic is launching the MA770, an industrial-chic concrete block with supposedly superior acoustics and a range of input options.

​Scientists believe they’ve spotted the biggest wave ever discovered. This is a tad bigger than anything you’d find on Earth: this wave is roiling through an extremely hot gas cloud in the Perseus cluster and stretches 200,000 light-years across, meaning it’s twice the size of the Milky Way galaxy.

Our modern domesticated chicken is remarkably passive, can lay many eggs quickly, and has little fear of humans. But these traits were not always common, and a team of scientists recently managed to pinpoint the time when chickens went through their major evolutionary shift.​

For 35 years American alligators have been tracked in a sanctuary in South Carolina, and a study about the findings has just been released. The results? We might have to rethink gator size and sex.