Sitting might be a comfortable and convenient way to spend much of your day, but a new study of older adults suggests it can ...

Being pregnant in the Viking Age was surely no picnic, but this experience has been largely ignored, in part because there ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the ...

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and ...

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy ...

A 115-year-old Surrey woman named Ethel Caterham has officially been handed the title of the oldest living human alive.

Taurine is an amino acid occurring naturally in the body, and found in energy drinks as well as foods like fish and meat – ...

Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but research suggests genetics play more of a ...

It's a question that's long been the cause of debate: is it better to shower in the morning or at night? Morning shower ...

Recent observations by JWST of TRAPPIST-1 c ruled out a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, indicating that the planet is not as ...

US surgeons successfully performed the world's first human bladder transplant on 4 May 2025. The complicated, eight-hour ...

On Jicarón Island, white-faced capuchin monkeys ( Cebus capucinus imitator) rule, unmolested by predators. In their peace, ...