Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

A new study in Japan shows that people value nature in three distinct ways - intrinsic, relational, and instrumental.

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Across their modelling strategies, the authors place the theoretical upper limit of the modern human lifespan somewhere between 128 and 202 years. They also note the best-verified maximum recorded ...

One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming ...

It already exists in the natural world. Now, thanks to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, scientists have created ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...

Before a swim in a lake or a walk through a creek, few people think about bacteria or toxins from algae. But what lives in that water can affect health days later.At Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), ...