Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly ...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are back on Earth after spending 241 days aboard the International ...

Dreams are not random mental noise. A large study of more than 3,700 dream and waking reports found that what we experience ...

Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that inherited genetics can strongly influence cancer risk and help determine how tumors develop over time. The results show that the genes a person ...

Eating within a shorter daily window may help protect certain thinking skills as people age. In a small six-month trial, older women who limited eating to about 8 to 9 hours a day performed better on ...

Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked ...

Unsweetened sparkling water may offer a tooth-friendlier alternative to sugary soda, according to a small preliminary study ...

Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had ...

A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat ...

Even mild inflammation during pregnancy led mouse offspring to develop persistent brain overactivity, sensory sensitivity, ...

Scientists used CRISPR to make prostate cancer cells easier for the immune system to detect and destroy. The experimental ...

Scientists expected SuperAgers might simply inherit fewer Alzheimer’s-related risks, but their genes looked much like those ...