In the partially fossilized trunks of ancient trees, and excavated cores of millennia-old ice, scientists have found evidence ...

Throughout history, few things have inspired as much quackery as the pills, potions and promises to slow ageing, boost ...

Perhaps cold dark matter particles undergo a similar oscillatory effect. The authors find that the best fit to observational ...

Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

There's no shortage of advice out there on the right work-life balance, and a new study gives us some fresh insight into the ...

Videos of men removing their eyelashes, by trimming or shaving, have been circulating on social media in recent weeks.

More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human ...

Chimpanzees in the wild are performing what looks like first aid on each other's wounds, and primatologists are only just beginning to formally catalogue the behavior.

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.