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A new study suggests that a familiar habit is associated with having more of it: continuing aerobic exercise across decades.

In a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers document a case of complete regression of ...

Losing muscle as you get older is something that happens to lots of people, but the consequences could be more serious than ...

There's a name for this: scientists call it 'Mind After Midnight' – a hypothesis, laid out in a 2022 paper, that the brain ...

There's a lot more to sleep than just the amount of time that passes between you drifting off and waking up again – and the ...

The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, ...

A ubiquitous industrial chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging may quietly mess with the body's insulin ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a ...

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.

The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 ...