Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

The idea of growing teeth in a lab has vague horror movie connotations, but it could serve a real, practical, non-scary ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes.

Some strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea, have ...

Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...