Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

A new study suggests that lifespan might be 50% heritable — although for now, it's hard to know if the finding applies across diverse populations.

Six weeks after a two-day intervention, study participants were still feeling the benefits of eating a lot of oats ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A new Northwestern University study analyzing public records maintained by the US Government Publishing Office and Congressional Budget Office over a 40-year period showed that federal science and ...

Space engineers work on the NASA IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Aug. 28, 2025. Editor at Large If ...

Being a night owl can be bad for your heart. That's according to a study showing night owls had poorer overall cardiovascular ...

Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...

As a political science major, Alkhazraji’s main goal for his study abroad opportunity was to speak to someone in the Costa ...