There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years.

To keep our bodies properly oriented, our brains perform impressive feats of calculation that track our stumbling meat sack ...

The rapid development of vaccines that protect against COVID was a remarkable scientific achievement that saved millions of ...

Mounting evidence suggests adding just a spoonful of olive oil to your diet each day can have powerful health benefits.

For the first time, we've found evidence of a substantial atmosphere wrapped around a rocky world outside the Solar System.

A centuries-old lock of hair that turned out to be from an unknown woman and advanced genomic sequencing technologies in 2023 debunked a long-running theory that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven ...

But where Earth is lush, wet, and teeming with life, Venus is very much not. Venus is choked by toxic carbon dioxide clouds ...

Vaccination saves lives – an astounding 154 million of them since 1974 when the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its expanded global immunization programme, according to new research.

It's a question that has dogged humanity since we first learned about black holes a little over a century ago: What the heck ...

A team of Canadian and US researchers has demonstrated incredible results when restoring old corroded daguerreotypes (very ...

A recent analysis of a sperm whale's vocalizations suggests variations in 'clicks' represent a kind of alphabet that forms the basis of a complex communication system.