A new Alzheimer's study has produced a first-of-its-kind genetic map, which could provide vital insights into the ...

Our bones don't actually feel the cold as we sense it. They lack the same temperature-sensitive receptors that we have in our ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and wonder if something's wrong.

In an early clinical trial, a single dose of a short-acting psychedelic drug led to rapid improvement in people with major ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will grace Antarctica, and only a lucky few will get to bask – or waddle – in its glow.

He came up with a new one, called the Late-Transition Interacting Thawer (LTIT) model, which models how dark energy could "thaw" after a certain amount of time after the universe started and is slowly ...

Bacteria extracted from 5,000-year-old ice in the Scărișoara Ice Cave in Romania could help us fight superbugs, new research shows – if it doesn't become one itself.

Weight-loss injections have rapidly moved from specialist clinics to social media feeds and high-street pharmacies.

With dieting, we usually think of smaller portions and periods of fasting, but new research shows that there is a way to ...

Researchers have found compelling evidence that depression points to the development of Parkinson's disease or Lewy body ...

We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...