Aging involves lots of changes throughout the body, but few organs broadcast the process quite as publicly as the skin.

A morning dose of blue light might help older people sleep better in the evening, giving them a boost for their daily ...

This suggests that O-type stars experience black hole grinding. There are plenty of the smaller B-type stars in the region, ...

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it's possible to harvest clean energy from the ...

On Perranporth beach in Cornwall, UK, a local outdoor swimming group called the Perranporth Bluetits is out in force.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

The latest drugs for Alzheimer's disease may add years of independence to the lives of patients, but possibly only for some.

When the human brain is starved of energy, it may start to 'eat' its own fatty tissue for fuel, according to a pilot study on ...

WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...

At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, an NOAA Ocean Exploration remotely operated underwater ...

A young woman who lived and died more than 2,000 years ago left behind remains in China that are unlike any we've seen ...

This daily feast-and-famine cycle in oxygen availability created an intense physiological challenge for early animals, ...