More than 20 years ago, four female beluga whales were kept together at the New York Aquarium of the Wildlife Conservation ...

We're all a certain number of years and months and days old, but alongside this chronological age is a biological age: the ...

In the middle of Laos, an ancient mystery bulges from the sweeping plains and intermittent forests of the Xiangkhoang Plateau ...

Scientists have spotted two humpback whales that made separate, record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil.

The explosion of a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 40 years ago in April 1986 was one of the biggest human-made ...

Knowing how the body burns fat is crucial to understanding all kinds of metabolic systems – for regulating body temperature, ...

Simple, reliable tests to identify cognitive decline earlier in life and track it over time can make a real difference to ...

Weight-loss injections, such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, have transformed how we treat obesity. Around 1.6 million adults in ...

Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the ...

It's well established that being overweight or obese increases cancer risk, but a new study adds some valuable fine print to ...

Oxygen levels have decreased in almost 80 percent of rivers worldwide, and they're going to continue losing this precious ...

There's something special about the APOE2 variant of the APOE (apolipoprotein E) gene: People who carry it tend to live ...