New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is clear: 40% of 60-year-old men show loss of Y, but 57% of 90-year-olds.

Haolong is known only from a single specimen – an almost complete skeleton stretching 2.45 meters (8 feet) long, with stunningly preserved skin. Intriguingly, the bones suggest it was still a juvenile ...

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A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously ...

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Some brain cells can resist the toxic processes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...