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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A routine check-up at the dentist ends with bad news: tooth decay has left a large cavity, and the tooth needs a crown. The ...

An international team of researchers have discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of north Queensland ...