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 ...

An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever ...

In many neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s and FTD, toxic levels of proteins ...

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 New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did ...

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 ...

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

A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion ...

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

Neanderthals thrived across Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of thousands of years. They occupied vast distances, ranging from Europe through the Altai Mountains in Central Asia. They survived ...

You can get a sunburn when you're least expecting it! In the shade, in the cold, in all sorts of places you probably don't ...

Tim Spector spent 15 years studying nutrition without bias, and what he found upended his own kitchen. He pulled margarine ...