Venki Ramakrishnan thinks longevity treatments are overhyped. To age well, he leads an active life and cooks from scratch.

The abnormality suggests there might have been a physical deformity that caused her great pain and “marked this person [to ...

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After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Four scientists walked to Mars in June of 2023 ... to prepare for the eventual real thing. They get to check out of regular ...

In theory, scientists know that a species with high enough genetic variation can adapt more rapidly to change. However, few studies aimed to experiment with evolution over time in the wild.

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a ...

A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite rapidly. This study revealed how a specific ecotype of the snail changed its ...

There's so much realism in "The Martian" that it's easy to imagine a manned mission to Mars happening in real life too. Ed Finn, director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona ...

The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out large swathes of Earth and the humans on it, are real. But as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in How to Kill an ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Scientists have developed a fluid that turns into a strong sticky fibre when shot out of a gadget to lift ...