As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red ...

How much does your weight really say about your health? Probably less than you think. You could eat your five-a-day, hit the ...

Julian Kirchherr had a hypothesis. The Assistant Professor in Geosciences at Utrecht University suspected that a significant ...

How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.

How much does your weight really say about your health? Probably less than you think. You could eat your five-a-day, hit the gym regularly, have textbook blood pressure and ...

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. As birth ...

What if your doctor could, when you turn 65, order a test that predicts whether you are going to develop Alzheimer’s dementia in your 70s or 80s? And what if – in case the test comes back ...

When actor Orlando Bloom revealed recently that he’d undergone a procedure to have his blood “cleaned”, many people raised ...

A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an ...

(via Vox) Children get a lot of shots in the first few years of life. Here’s why.

Dairy milk is making a comeback -- and not a moment too soon for America's bone health. For years, calcium intake has ...