The human brain evolved for a world of familiar faces, immediate threats and small social groups. But the world around us is changing far faster than human biology can keep pace. That mismatch may ...

The experiences we face early in life may leave their marks on our health in ways that echo across decades—and even across the entire body. A new study, published in the journal Science, examined a ...

In every cell of your body, there are mysterious speckles. You need a microscope to see them, but if you peer closely, you will see lots of tiny dots: some sitting still, some moving around as if ...

Forensic tests have helped identify the remains of a man last seen in 1998, officials said. The tests were conducted 26 years after the remains were first discovered in a sleeping bag in the ...

Life Biosciences says it just dosed its first patient in an FDA-approved clinical trial to reverse age-related blindness. Reading time 3 minutes Buckle up. High-stakes human testing has now begun on a ...

A longevity startup has dosed its first patient with a drug to reverse age-related sight loss. Life Biosciences is testing its ER-100 drug, which the company claims has restored vision in monkeys, for ...

Long before creator-led journalism became a media-industry trend, Laurie Segall already left the newsroom. A longtime tech journalist, Segall spent a decade at CNN before leaving in 2019 to co-found ...

In the past 100 years, the heads of Japanese people have got rounder, with narrower cheekbones, wider upper jaws and slimmer, more prominent noses. While changes outside Japan may vary, the overall ...

The famed neolithic decline that struck around 3100 B.C.E. in northern Europe has a new scientific explanation. A distinct population drop across multiple regions opened the door for outsiders to ...

Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he succumbed to a terminal disease late last year. At his death, a deep sense of grief ripped through the ...

“The metabolism is the body’s internal operating system,” said Ambika Ashraf, M.D., professor in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and the Ralph Froshin Endowed Chair in Pediatric ...