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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...

Across the world, populations are aging rapidly as people live longer and fertility rates continue to decline. Asia is at the vanguard of this demographic shift. The number of older adults (aged 60 ...

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

Many medicines begin life with one purpose and end up proving useful for a completely different reason. Few areas show this ...

In 1998, a scientist and a philosopher walked into a bar and ordered a drink. It’s not the beginning of a joke, but a consequential encounter between Christof Koch, a young German-American ...

Scientists may have discovered a new role for the cerebellum, the part of the brain that sits at the base of the skull. A new paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports that different ...

Black holes have been understood as infinite singularities for a century. In 1916, months after Einstein published general ...