Losing muscle as you get older is something that happens to lots of people, but the consequences could be more serious than ...

The researchers identified the five new craters using two cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has snapped a slew of spectacular shots from its orbital perch, inc ...

A major study of more than 10,000 adults has found that exposure to light at night is associated with subtle yet measurable ...

If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why haven't we yet made contact? Researchers who study this ...

Mitochondria turn energy from food into ATP, the molecule that powers almost everything cells do. How they achieve such efficiency remains unclear. Now, researchers in China think part of the answer ...

You can now listen to the exact sound of Earth's magnetic field falling apart. Around 41,000 years ago, our planet's magnetic field did dramatic: it flipped. Using data from the European Space ...

The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.

Controlling the door is the blood-brain barrier: a tightly sealed border around the brain's blood vessels. But in Alzheimer's disease, this protective border can begin to leak. Scientists may now have ...

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity does not discriminate. Matter, antimatter – it's all the same as far as gravity is concerned, and it all should fall in exactly the same ...

Two remote Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon are said to have some of the lowest rates of dementia in the world.

In tunnels gouged under Mount Mantap in North Korea, six nuclear devices were detonated between 2006 and 2017. Now, ...