Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases ...

All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...

In many neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s and FTD, toxic levels of proteins ...

An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a ...

A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

In 1947, Paul Erdős, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become one of math’s most powerful tools. He wanted to prove that a certain kind of object existed — in this case, a ...

The old “Dr. Google” era has given way to a faster, louder medical marketplace: TikTok, Reddit, podcasts, and influencer-led telehealth. In that ecosystem, “spermmaxxing” has emerged as a ...

Across the world, fathers are spending more time with their children than at any other point in modern history. And the bolstered investment isn't small. In America, Millennial dads spend triple the ...

A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion ...

In 2011, a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burned for 111 days. Even a foot of rain from Hurricane Irene failed to extinguish ...

Black holes have been understood as infinite singularities for a century. In 1916, months after Einstein published general ...