While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Children's mattresses may be giving off chemicals associated with damage to the brain, according to new research – a ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ultraviolet (UV) radiation around 41,000 years ago.

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't the only mammals with sparse hair.

We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...