Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations ...

As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

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I'm a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from ...

In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping ...

They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by ...

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common ...

In a surprise conclusion to a project dubbed The Final Experiment, several well-known believers in a non-spherical Earth have ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of the ginseng family, as scientists ...