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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

A ubiquitous industrial chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging may quietly mess with the body's insulin ...

Diet and exercise can both influence how long you live, but research suggests they're not the single greatest predictor of ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...