The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land.

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically ...

Dopamine is one of the most extensively studied chemical messengers in the human brain, and yet scientists are still figuring ...

Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

The retrospective cohort study included more than 130,000 people in the US. It reveals that the shingles vaccine (called ...

Dogs are known to have incredible senses of smell, far more powerful than our own. Previous studies have found our pets can ...

Initial study showed that the LRDs are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with supermassive black holes (SMBH) in their centers.

A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an ...

We developed the Take Five to Age Well quiz to help people reflect on how they're doing across these five areas – and where ...

An Australian lizard in the same genus as the komodo dragon has been found harboring secret bone chainmail under their scaly skin.