How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? A new study published in Science reveals that genes have a higher ...

A straightforward blood test could one day reveal the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease years before more noticeable symptoms appear, according to a new study of DNA repair and cell stress. The ...

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

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 ...

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

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

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

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.

Earlier studies have estimated that life span may be 15-33 per cent heritable across varied populations, with a typical range ...

The team found that when a plant is wounded, such as when a leaf, stem, or root is cut, the cells experience a sudden rise in ...

It turns out the mighty T. rex wasn't always so mighty! New research is shedding light on how long it took the "king of the ...

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 ...