Despite disagreements about what aging is and isn't, scientists have reached a radical consensus: It can be delayed.
In 'Cracking the Aging Code', theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and writer Dorion Sagan take a different approach to the science of growing old.
The animal world can offer insights into human longevity.
A newly discovered meteorite, nicknamed Öst 65, may have originated from the same collision that formed L chondrites, one of the most abundant groups of meteorites on Earth.
The brain's decline may mirror its beginning, offering clues to aging.
There is great variety in how animals and plants deteriorate (or don’t) over time.
Habitual users tend to get stuck in nondrug-related habits more easily, too, pointing to a potential strategy for treatment
Laser survey unveils the extent, and the mystery, of Southeast Asia’s Khmer Empire
Ecosystem-supporting hydrothermal vents are much more abundant along the ocean floor than previously thought.
Mothers aren’t their children’s only source of bacteria that cause dental cavities, new research shows.
Outbreak of Elizabethkingia continues to grow as disease investigators struggle to find source.
After discovering resistant microbes in pets, scientists worry about the role of companion animals in the spread of resistant urinary infections.
Widespread coral bleaching continues, in the longest episode, over the largest area to date.
Scientists have identified a protein that chops up the mitochondrial DNA in a dad’s sperm after it fertilizes an egg. The finding helps explain why mitochondrial DNA is usually passed on only by mothers.
Asteroid 2016 HO3 is a quasisatellite of Earth — orbiting the sun while never wandering far from our planet.
Hair, scales and feathers arose from same ancestral appendage.
Birds’ internal compasses may rely on the delicate nature of the quantum world.
Tiny slimed tunnels in the guts of a 77-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur fossil offer the first hard evidence that dinosaurs may have been infected by parasitic worms, paleontologists say.
A volcanic region of Tanzania contains more than a trillion liters of helium gas, enough to fill 1.2 million medical MRI scanners — or hundreds of billions of balloons, researchers report.
The September extent of the Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk by about 4.5 million square kilometers since 2000, thanks in large part to the Montreal Protocol.
Lots of unknowns remain as researchers try to pin down where a possible ninth planet might be hiding in the solar system.
Scientists envisioned artificial hearing 50 years ago. Today, they are working to make it superhuman.
Tests of bagged ice found that 19 percent exceeded recommended thresholds for bacterial contamination.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter, beginning a 20-month investigation of the giant planet’s interior.
'Koko — The Gorilla Who Talks' documents the nearly 45-year relationship between researcher Penny Patterson and Koko, the subject of an ape sign language project.