As if humanity needed another reason to embrace its early morning (or evening) espresso, scientists have just discovered a ...

In the past, Graves has called the Y chromosome the "DNA junkyard". Creating lots of copies of a gene can boost the odds that ...

A higher level of the fat that gathers around organs has been linked to faster brain aging in a new study, with glucose and ...

A strange mouse study suggests that the brain isn't a 'blank slate' at birth, waiting for memories to be written onto it.

Autoimmune diseases, where the body's own immune system mistakenly goes on the attack, are much more common in women – and a ...

Alongside other globally renowned voices such as the late, great Jane Goodall, Attenborough's work telling the stories of ...

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways.

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious.

One particularly problematic sleep disorder is sleep apnea, and it is not rare. The condition affects nearly 1 billion people ...

This Friday, Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old – a birthday fewer than 0.03 percent of people alive today have ...

Now, scientists have brought us closer to understanding this mysterious sense by creating a detailed map that shows the ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...