A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical ...

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

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 ...