In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Once common contributing factors such as body mass index and smoking status were factored in, the final calculations showed ...

A simple eye scan could be used to check for signs of heart disease risk and biological aging, a new study shows – ...

We don't all respond to the same diets in the same way, and results from a new study help explain why: Gut microbes that naturally produce more methane are also able to squeeze more energy and ...

Genes on the sex chromosomes would be expected to show different activity between men (with an X chromosome and a Y chromosome) and women (with two X chromosomes). However, most (90%) sex-biased genes ...

In a flare of light that traveled for 10 billion years to reach us, astronomers have identified the most powerful and most ...

A suspected strike by "tiny space debris" has delayed the return of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-20 and three astronauts, Beijing's space agency said on Wednesday.

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

The latest study on America's state of mind is in, and it reveals a concerning rise in the share of adults who say they have ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen". Questions about their ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

A group of scientists in the UK recently demanded that bacon and ham products carry health warnings similar to those on ...