People have a pretty intuitive sense of what is healthy – standing is better than sitting, exercise is great for overall ...

In medieval England, humans lived in much closer quarters with red squirrels than most of us do today. And that's not just ...

The presence of parasitic microbes has for the first time been found literally altering the metabolism of their hosts.

We also know that obesity damages the tiny vessels supplying blood to the brain, and is a major cause of high blood pressure, ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Deep in the cave, across a hazardous path including deep pits, they have found broken stalagmites more than 1.5 kilometers (0 ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the 800-pound gorilla of large neutrino experiments. It has about 5,000 sensors that have ...

But on the Sun, they usually can be found around the center of sunspot groups, where magnetic conditions are strong and large ...

As the world's aging population grows, and dementia, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis reach epidemic levels, people ...

Earth's magnetic field nearly collapsed some 590 million years ago, presumably putting life on the planet's surface at risk ...

Humans are far from the only animal known to use nature as a medicine cabinet to soothe their pains and ailments.

Rocks scrutinized by the Curiosity rover in an ancient, long-dried lakebed on Mars have revealed conditions likely to have ...