Exercise is good for you – that much we can all agree on – but which exercises work best for which types of benefit? Knowing ...

In a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers document a case of complete regression of ...

A new study suggests that a familiar habit is associated with having more of it: continuing aerobic exercise across decades.

Two of Earth's largest ice sheets have lost more than 12 trillion US tons of ice in just 47 years, according to a major report authored by 58 scientists from institutions around the world.

Woolly mammoths – elephant-sized relatives of modern elephants wrapped in thick fur – once roamed the frozen grasslands of ...

Losing muscle as you get older is something that happens to lots of people, but the consequences could be more serious than ...

There's a name for this: scientists call it 'Mind After Midnight' – a hypothesis, laid out in a 2022 paper, that the brain ...

The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, ...

There's a lot more to sleep than just the amount of time that passes between you drifting off and waking up again – and the ...

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.

We cannot escape the dimensions of the classical Universe – three spatial directions and the inexorable march of time. But gravity may not be bound by the same rules that apply to flesh and stone. It ...

It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to 44 new species per day, on average, as science identifies over 16,000 new organisms per year. Many of these may be ...