Research in the late 1990s showed that not only do some rats laugh when being tickled, such behavior can be selected for ...

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

The team found that when a plant is wounded, such as when a leaf, stem, or root is cut, the cells experience a sudden rise in ...

Designed to assist rather than replace doctors, a new autonomous tool scans clinical notes to highlight patients who may need ...

Earlier studies have estimated that life span may be 15-33 per cent heritable across varied populations, with a typical range ...

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.

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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

Taking oral semaglutide may reduce heart-related hospitalizations and deaths among those with a history of heart failure and ...

Six weeks after a two-day intervention, study participants were still feeling the benefits of eating a lot of oats ...

"Each additional 'year' of brain age is associated with meaningful differences in later-life health," a senior author of the ...

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