Science

Have you ever been to a reunion and noticed some people have aged much faster than others? It could be their bilogical age at play.

The human body maintains the ability to adapt to exercise at any age, showing that it’s never too late to start a fitness program.

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is commonly divided into two types. But evidence is mounting that a third, much rarer type exists as well.

A miscalculation by Earhart’s navigator could have provided a robotics company searching the ocean floor with the vital clue it needed to solve the 87-year aviation mystery.

Omicron has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but also an evolutionary marvel. It has given rise to a number of descendants, which have become adept at evading immunity and finding new victims.

Tuberculosis, which is preventable and curable, has reclaimed the title of the world’s leading infectious disease killer, after being supplanted from its long reign by COVID-19.

Have you ever wondered if you are washing your hair too much? Or too little? You’re not alone.

The US embassy in London has intervened in a row over how to make the perfect cup of tea after an American scientist made a controversial suggestion.

A warming planet threatens the world’s favourite drug.

The idea that you could change the health properties of a food by merely cooking and cooling it may sound too good to be true. But according to experts, there’s something to it.

Women going through the life phase, which is clinically defined as the end of fertility, face as many changes in the brain as in the ovaries.

A new study suggests an ancient species of great ape - Gigantopithecus blacki - was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes.

‘It’s not an emotion, it’s a bunch of emotions but it’s also a bunch of thoughts and a bunch of behaviours as well.’

It turns out that Neanderthals carried some of the same clock-related genetic variants as do people who report being early risers.

As recorded by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network