A remarkably detailed study of Maria Branyas, who lived past 117, reveals that extreme longevity may involve both intense ...

Unconventional quantum theories may imply that time itself has a tiny fundamental uncertainty, placing an ultimate limit on ...

Eating only between noon and 8 p.m. improved blood sugar control in a small study of adults with Type 1 diabetes and obesity, ...

Scientists have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more members of the doomed Franklin expedition, including ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack. The finding ...

Scientists have discovered that the Moon-forming collision may have depended heavily on how hot and physically strong early ...

While clearing debris to protect ancient Egyptian tombs from flash floods, researchers near Luxor stumbled upon an unknown ...

UCLA researchers developed ready-made cancer-fighting T cells from cord blood stem cells that can attack solid tumors through ...

Ancient human remains from Sulawesi suggest people were habitually using the psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago. Researchers found both unusual tooth wear and traces of arecoline, ...

The Mediterranean may seem far removed from the world’s major tsunami zones, but history and modern modeling show that destructive waves can strike the French Riviera with surprisingly little warning.

Scientists have directly observed how two negatively charged DNA molecules can pair up despite normally repelling each other.

People who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had roughly 2.45 times the risk of gastric cancer compared with ...