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

A new study from the University of East London has found that companies led by long-serving chief executives may become less ...

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 ...

After two devastating hurricanes in two decades, New York City is racing to prepare for the true superstorm, one that ...

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

The gamble of cryonically preserving one’s own body for reanimation somewhere off in the future (or, more frugally, just one’s brain) is ultimately a big bet on the increasing ingenuity and ...

Adults with stronger and more consistent daily patterns of rest and activity showed signs of slower aging, as measured by blood tests, in a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the ...

The door clicks shut on the soundproof booth in which I find myself, and I’m left alone in the dark. I’m sitting in an office chair, headphones on my head, as classical music begins to play. What I am ...

Even if you haven’t heard of Botrytis cinerea, you’ve likely seen it — slowly growing in your store-bought blueberries, ...

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

From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of ...