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

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 ...

Across the world, fathers are spending more time with their children than at any other point in modern history. And the bolstered investment isn't small. In America, Millennial dads spend triple the ...

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 ...

A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

An unusual artifact unearthed at a site in central Israel is offering researchers an unexpected look at far-reaching trade networks, religious traditions, and cultural change that rocked the ancient ...

In 1947, Paul Erdős, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become one of math’s most powerful tools. He wanted to prove that a certain kind of object existed — in this case, a ...

The old “Dr. Google” era has given way to a faster, louder medical marketplace: TikTok, Reddit, podcasts, and influencer-led telehealth. In that ecosystem, “spermmaxxing” has emerged as a ...

Dark matter is one of the most mysterious things in existence. We can't see it or feel it, and yet it is threaded through the structure of the Universe, making up around 85 per cent of its mass. It’s ...

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