Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and ...

Elite athletes can push their bodies to the very limit, but even they can't surpass the boundaries of human nature, according to new research.

While creatine is generally considered to be safe for young people to use, it's no shortcut to getting fit. It's better for young people looking to get strong or improve their athletic performance to ...

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

Our gut is full of tiny creatures that help us digest our food, protect us from harmful intruders, and act as the telephone line between our digestive system and brain.

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer ...

In a rigorous, double-blinded controlled trial, 82 healthy adults over the age of 65 were randomly assigned to play either ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system ...

A search for Parkinson's in the hiss of our brain's static has revealed measures of motor control that could one day ...