Haolong is known only from a single specimen – an almost complete skeleton stretching 2.45 meters (8 feet) long, with stunningly preserved skin. Intriguingly, the bones suggest it was still a juvenile ...

New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is ...

In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it.

This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; simple habits that could reduce your risk of dementia; a new light therapy ...

If you go to the gym often, you might have been told you shouldn't lift weights in runners. The common belief is it is bad for your performance and can lead to injuries. But is this really the case?

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

According to a pre-proof paper, hair samples from patients with Parkinson's disease showed significantly lower levels of iron and copper, along with higher levels of manganese and arsenic. The authors ...

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...

The poisonous death cap mushroom gives the entire fungi kingdom a bad rap, and it turns out they're not only spreading across continents, they're rapidly evolving, too.

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...