A new study suggests that lifespan might be 50% heritable — although for now, it's hard to know if the finding applies across diverse populations.

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

A brief, calorie-restricted diet centered almost entirely on oats led to a surprisingly strong and lasting reduction in cholesterol in people with metabolic syndrome. A very short dietary intervention ...

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

Researchers in Liverpool and Oxford have found that surgery for a common elbow fracture in children offers no clinical ...

Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

A new Northwestern University study analyzing public records maintained by the US Government Publishing Office and Congressional Budget Office over a 40-year period showed that federal science and ...

Space engineers work on the NASA IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2025. Editor at Large If ...

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...