Exercise is good for you – that much we can all agree on – but which exercises work best for which types of benefit? Knowing ...

The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, ...

There's a name for this: scientists call it 'Mind After Midnight' – a hypothesis, laid out in a 2022 paper, that the brain ...

But when menopause arrives, the brain's normal aging seems to be temporarily altered. The first brain scan study of its kind ...

Depression can affect the brain, but not in the same way for everyone. A 10-year study suggests that what matters may not be whether someone has depression, but how the illness unfolds over time. And ...

Non-physicists might hear of 'the Hall effect' and think it relates to the way time elongates when trying to get young ...

For 2,000 years, the architects behind the iconic Parthenon temple in Greece have had praise heaped on them for the clever ...

Experts think that the biological beginnings of Alzheimer's disease might start showing up a long time before symptoms such ...

But beneath those frozen expanses may lie evidence of mountains that once rivaled today's Himalayas, and which profoundly shaped the trajectory of life on Earth. Previous work from 2022 has suggested ...

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

Survival is only one part of evolution. For a variant to become less common across generations, it must ultimately reduce its ...