Studying centenarians means studying only the people who reached 100 – not the many more who didn't. That makes it difficult ...

Summer just feels like a healthier season – plenty of daylight after work to play soccer or picnic in the park, beach days, ...

Scientists have just discovered the Milky Way's equivalent of a giant fake mustache. For four decades, astronomers have ...

Ancient Roman concrete did things a little differently. Scientists have long known that the concrete built during the Roman ...

Across the world, entire species of frogs and toads are being wiped out by a relentless fungal infection, commonly known as ...

Ancient Egyptian princesses actually knew how to use the weapons they were buried with, according to a new study published in ...

So why are we updating our understanding of T. rex's childhood? In a "vanishingly rare" discovery, paleontologists have found and closely examined fossils of tyrannosaur hatchlings – and the ...

In July 2024, residents of the New York metropolitan area were treated to a rare spectacle as a fireball exploded in the sky, ...

The science of longevity is an important topic for many researchers: how we might add years to our lifespans, and avoid ...

The cell churn that goes on inside our bodies is vast, with hundreds of billions of cells dying off and being replaced every ...

The Grand Duke Francesco de Medici, a prominent politician in the Tuscany region of Italy in the 16th century, died under ...

Astronomers have been detecting exoplanetary atmospheres for more than 20 years. Yet only on wildly un-Earth-like planets ...