Researchers looked back at the baby-boom era and found that federal mortgage programs played a part in the country’s population upswing after World War II. By Sabrina Tavernise Puzzling over the ...

The Intergenerational Report released this week forecast deaths would overtake births by the mid 2060s, with the number of Australians aged 85 and over set to triple. The trend has spurred talk of ...

Scientists just discovered that the second law of thermodynamics can be massaged by using a qubit as a quantum switch. This implies that engineers could one day build a system that can keep itself ...

Readers respond to an editorial on preserving the homes of writers such as William Blake, Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth for the public Your editorial (The Guardian view on writers’ houses: a ...

Picture a 58-year-old getting the band back together, literal instruments, amplifier, van, and all, or dusting off a skateboard he hasn't touched since the Reagan administration, and calling it a ...

A 62-year-old Sydney woman has been sentenced over a drunken crash that sent her reversing through a Coles supermarket parking lot in Turramurra, slamming into one parked car after another. The crash ...

Alcohol can feel deeply entwined in our lives. A beer or glass of wine while catching up with friends. A cocktail at the end of a hard day. A round of toasts at a party. It’s hard to believe that such ...

Marian Fraser, the former Waco day care owner who is serving a fifty-year sentence for allegedly killing a four-month-old with a fatal dose of Benadryl, may get a third trial. On Wednesday, Texas’s ...

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into ...

The damage happens fast. Oxygen stops reaching the newborn brain, blood flow collapses, and within minutes the injury is done. What follows can take years to become fully visible: a child who ...

Scientists may have pinpointed a way to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in an animal study. The study, led by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, found that restoring a central cellular energy ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery. Despite billions of dollars ...