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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering ...

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?

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

Venting, however, often goes beyond reflection into rumination. The study suggests that many people also try to exorcise ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen ...

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