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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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