By 2040, an estimated 80 million Americans will be 65 or older. Of these, 14 million will be at least 85, more than doubling ...

The idea that “brain training” might lower the risk of dementia has been a popular topic for a long time, but the evidence ...

An international collaboration of astronomers has produced one of the most precise measurements yet of how fast the local Universe is expanding. The result deepens one of the most significant challeng ...

Southern California is home to a flying black and yellow treasure. While commercial honeybee hives nationwide are collapsing under attack from deadly parasites, a unique hybrid bee found only in this ...

When in life we gain weight can have a significant impact on our health many years later. In a study involving over 600,000 people, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated how chang ...

Living with friends may quietly be altering your gut bacteria, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia. Research on a colony of tiny island birds reveals they share more of their g ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

At first, this seems like a paradox with a fundamental law of physics somehow getting broken here, but rather ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

The Artemis II heat shield, NASA agrees, is flawed. The heat shield is the critical layer at the bottom of a spacecraft that protects it — and the astronauts inside — from searing temperatures upon re ...

In 1966, when seamstresses at the International Latex Corporation arrived at its new Apollo Suit shopfloor in Frederica, Delaware, they were essentially “taught to sew again from scratch.” And for ...

The surge in autism diagnoses is often treated as a medical mystery. But it may be better understood as a policy story—one shaped by financial incentives, expanded definitions, and weak oversight. The ...