Meaningfully boosting healthspan – the years one lives in good health, free of disease and disability – isn't rocket science.

Oronde McClain was 10 years old when a drive-by shooting changed the rest of his life. A bullet struck him in the head. He spent eight weeks in a coma. Surgeons removed one-third of his brain. He had ...

A fast-growing population of hybrid or mutant pigs is spreading through abandoned areas near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, according to new research studying the aftermath of the 2011 ...

These proteins were not supposed to exist. Yet, there they were. As we started to learn more about them, researchers wondered if we hadn’t stumbled upon new targets for treating diseases like cancer.

Who are the biggest drug users in most developed countries? Adults over age 65. A 2022 systematic review of studies conducted ...

For a while back there we might be able to avoid the black hole. They’d been lurking as shadows in our theories of gravity ...

The equations that govern black holes were true before there were black holes. That claim is hotly contested, and cuts through one of the deepest fault lines in the philosophy of mathematics. On one ...

Walk into any supermarket and you are surrounded by carbon. Not the kind measured in parts per million in climate reports, ...

Designing a series of sweetener trials seemed straightforward enough to us as behavioural scientists who specialise in human ...

An experimental diagnostic tool in the form of a computer game was able to quickly identify patients with depression based on ...

A new study from the University of Waterloo uses mathematical modelling to examine how Vitamin C affects chemical reactions ...