For astronauts in space, constipation is a well-known problem. But why this happens has long been unclear. Now, a new study ...

Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or ...

Roman is the follow-up to Hubble, it's the same size and so will give us the same level of detail in images, but it’s also ...

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In the mountains and other high-altitude areas, you can often come across circles made of stone, says Arne Håkon Thomassen. Why did people make so many of these stone circles, hundreds or thousands of ...

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When people think about getting older, many picture an inevitable decline in health. But that isn’t always the case. You can improve with age, both mentally and physically. This mindset may even be ...

“You can grow enough marijuana in a window box to drive the whole population of the United States stark, staring, raving mad.” Those words appeared in the 1928 book Dope: The Story of the Living Dead ...

There has been a big shake-up in the understanding for how our brain ages. Until now, the prevailing belief was that our brain tissue shrinks with age, exemplified by the hippocampus, the region tied ...

Betelgeuse has always been something of a mystery. And by "mystery," I mean a source of endless fun, fascination and frustration for astronomers. Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky, ...

The longevity field is getting better at talking about women. But when it comes to muscle, it still too often treats menopause as a lifestyle inconvenience rather than a biological inflection point.

America's aging population is muddying a headline signal of labor market health. The clearest sign yet: The share of people working or looking for work has fallen sharply, with the nation's shifting ...