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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did ...

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

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