Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a ...

All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...

In many neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s and FTD, toxic levels of proteins ...

An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever ...

In 2011, a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burned for 111 days. Even a foot of rain from Hurricane Irene failed to extinguish ...

A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion ...

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

Black holes have been understood as infinite singularities for a century. In 1916, months after Einstein published general ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

Across the world, populations are aging rapidly as people live longer and fertility rates continue to decline. Asia is at the vanguard of this demographic shift. The number of older adults (aged 60 ...