Diet and exercise can both influence how long you live, but research suggests they're not the single greatest predictor of ...

A new study suggests that a familiar habit is associated with having more of it: continuing aerobic exercise across decades.

Woolly mammoths – elephant-sized relatives of modern elephants wrapped in thick fur – once roamed the frozen grasslands of ...

There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe.

Scientists have identified eight chemicals commonly used to preserve food that are linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure.

Numerous women ruled ancient Egypt in some form or another throughout its storied history, not to mention some action-movie-worthy princesses.

There's a lot more to sleep than just the amount of time that passes between you drifting off and waking up again – and the ...

It's hard to imagine a system of physics simpler than a billiard table. Send a ball across the table, and its path follows a ...

Exercise is good for you – that much we can all agree on – but which exercises work best for which types of benefit? Knowing ...

There's a name for this: scientists call it 'Mind After Midnight' – a hypothesis, laid out in a 2022 paper, that the brain ...

The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, ...

Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical ...