In an effort to combat Alzheimer's disease, scientists are looking at existing drugs that could treat the condition, and a ...

Once common contributing factors such as body mass index and smoking status were factored in, the final calculations showed ...

A Swiss biotech company is putting a new longevity supplement to the test, and the latest clinical results are promising.

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Our bodies are in a constant state of ebb and flow, from the breaths we're taking to the fluids washing our brains clean each night.

A monumental complex built by the Maya around 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos, new fieldwork has revealed.

A new map of the empire's ancient land routes has nearly doubled the length of the confirmed ancient Roman road network, from 190,000 to 300,000 kilometers (118,000 to 186,000 miles) – with the major ...

We don't all respond to the same diets in the same way, and results from a new study help explain why: Gut microbes that ...

A suspected strike by "tiny space debris" has delayed the return of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-20 and three astronauts, ...

The latest study on America's state of mind is in, and it reveals a concerning rise in the share of adults who say they have ...

Genes on the sex chromosomes would be expected to show different activity between men (with an X chromosome and a Y ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have ...