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

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

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

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 ...

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

But now, astronomers have finally detected an atmosphere on an extensively studied, potentially habitable 'super-Earth' named ...

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

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

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

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