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

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have ...

That's why ingesting chlorine dioxide often leads to nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea. In extreme cases, the chemical can burn through the gut lining, leading to bowel perforation – a ...

The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling ...

However, we might also want to look for hints of alien origin. One very strong piece of evidence would be any kind of radio ...

When NASA's upcoming Dragonfly probe skims the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan, it may encounter a froth akin to Earth's first ...

Astronomers have spotted a variety of weirdly blinking phenomena out there in the big wide Milky Way through history, but a ...

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

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

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

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

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