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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Tyrannosaurus rex is iconic for its ferocity and big teeth, as well as those teeny-tiny arms. The Cretaceous Period apex predator wasn’t the only carnivore with underdeveloped forelimbs, however. At ...

Picture a woman staggering out of a 5 am spin class, legs trembling, face drawn. A man who keeps adding a few extra kilometres to his run because it doesn’t feel like enough. Or a teen who restarts ...

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 ...

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