Catching signs of dementia early – before the main symptoms have started to show – means a bigger window of opportunity to study the progression of the condition, and to put support in place for those ...

If anything is forever in this Universe, it's black holes – or so their physics suggests. These ultra-dense objects are possessed of inexorable gravitational fields. Matter goes in. Very little ever ...

The textbooks and history lessons tend to treat the Black Death as one devastating wave of pestilence that hit Europe between 1347 and 1353.

Can monkeys get Alzheimer's, or is the disease unique to humans? As African green monkeys age, their brains can develop some changes that resemble those seen in Alzheimer's.

The preliminary analysis, published in Nature Metabolism, finds initial evidence that a popular supplement, taken by more than 40 million Americans, is associated with faster progression to dementia ...

The team's results, published in AGU Advances, identify and explain what seems to be a paradoxical future scenario: 'young' water getting older, and 'old' water getting younger in ...

Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.

Venting when angry seems a sensible option. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like ...

Going through menopause brings with it major shifts in biology for women, and experts have long wondered whether this could be part of the reason that Alzheimer's disease is notably more common in ...

Some computations are so hardcore that it takes a facility of extraordinary power to even think about running them.

Imagine picking up a black stone from an old riverbed in Brazil. Its surface shines like glass, but inside it is riddled with tiny holes. Break it open and you would find not one crystal, but a ...

The oldest known person in the United States and the second-oldest person in the world just celebrated her 116th birthday.