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 ...

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 ...

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.

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".