Stories by Claire Cameron

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination

A wind farm off the coast of China appeared to boost fish numbers and supported colonies of oysters and barnacles, according to new research

Are you a specialist or a generalist? The answer could reveal something about how well you learn and perfect a skill

Humans traveling to Mars will need protective habitats to live on the harsh surface. Ice could help

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is taking the reins at NASA at a challenging time for the space agency, as it faces budget cuts and technical hurdles that could scuttle its most ambitious missions

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease

This week marks the last chance for backyard astronomers to see interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS before it races on its journey back to outer space

Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent less likely to give birth prematurely, according to new research

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to regulate mood

More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year

In a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of developing heart disease over a 10-year period than their peers did

French health officials are trying to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted MERS, a potentially lethal disease that is typically confined to the Middle East

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light

The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster remains damaged, but so far, radiation levels outside the plant have not increased, according to officials

A man has passed away after he received a kidney transplant from a person who had died with undiagnosed rabies, according to U.S. public health officials

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earth-like exoplanets

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino

The review was carried out and released by the Vaccine Integrity Project, which is dedicated to bolstering vaccines in the U.S.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species

Mars is passing behind the sun, giving NASA's Perseverance rover a view of the star’s far side

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new study

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to end its monkey research program will affect studies involving some 200 macaques, and the fate of the animals is unclear