The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land.

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically ...

An Australian lizard in the same genus as the komodo dragon has been found harboring secret bone chainmail under their scaly skin.

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

Dopamine is one of the most extensively studied chemical messengers in the human brain, and yet scientists are still figuring ...

We developed the Take Five to Age Well quiz to help people reflect on how they're doing across these five areas – and where ...

Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.

Initial study showed that the LRDs are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with supermassive black holes (SMBH) in their centers.

A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an ...

The retrospective cohort study included more than 130,000 people in the US. It reveals that the shingles vaccine (called ...

The rate at which our bodies age and wear down doesn't necessarily match our actual age, and the differences can help predict ...

When astronauts return from the International Space Station, many have noticed an unexpected side effect of their mission, ...