Too much light at night, and not enough light in the day, could increase your risk of dying earlier than you otherwise would ...

The tropical waters that flow between the Philippines archipelago contribute more than four million tonnes of seafood to ...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors.

The key genes change the chemical structure of the pigment molecule through the actions of an enzyme which adds just one atom ...

As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they've got nothing on nature's own version – DNA. A new technique for writing data to DNA works like a printing press and makes it easy enough ...

While it's not possible to stop the brain from aging – at least not yet – there might be ways to slow down its decline, and a ...

The rise and fall of triplet births in the US is a dangerous rollercoaster that, thankfully, appears to be stabilizing.

The new learning that often is accompanied by a sense of effort – and sometimes frustration – requires accessing the ...

This is not metaphorical, although cats are certainly eminently capable of escaping all manner of predicaments. It's literal, ...

Scientists have confirmed the cannabis ingredient cannabinol (CBN) can increase sleep in rats, highlighting a new path for ...

No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat ...

For some 37,000 years, the soft, furry body of a three-week-old saber-toothed 'kitten' lay cradled by Arctic permafrost, its ...