The houseplant-as-air-purifier idea can be traced to a 1989 US study, conducted for NASA as part of research into closed-loop ...
As if humanity needed another reason to embrace its early morning (or evening) espresso, scientists have just discovered a ...
A higher level of the fat that gathers around organs has been linked to faster brain aging in a new study, with glucose and ...
In the past, Graves has called the Y chromosome the "DNA junkyard". Creating lots of copies of a gene can boost the odds that ...
Alongside other globally renowned voices such as the late, great Jane Goodall, Attenborough's work telling the stories of ...
A strange mouse study suggests that the brain isn't a 'blank slate' at birth, waiting for memories to be written onto it.
One particularly problematic sleep disorder is sleep apnea, and it is not rare. The condition affects nearly 1 billion people ...
Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways.
Autoimmune diseases, where the body's own immune system mistakenly goes on the attack, are much more common in women – and a ...
This Friday, Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old – a birthday fewer than 0.03 percent of people alive today have ...
In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious.
A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...