From the age of three, the 12th Century nun, mystic, poet and composer Hildegard von Bingen had dazzling visions of shimmering points of light and falling stars, which she recorded in detail in her ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

The good news? The dazzling Laimosemion laranja killifish was just discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. The bad news? The team that discovered it is already recommending that it be placed on the ...

Your brain is talking to your skeleton, and more than you probably realize. For example, doctors have long noticed something odd about people with traumatic brain injuries—their bones heal faster.

As a result, nicotine is being repositioned from an addictive substance linked to tobacco use to a natural product that can be used for everything from improving focus to protecting against cognitive ...

It’s a sight you don’t see often, or ever: a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) apparently hitching a ride on the back of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) by clinging onto its fin. Featured Video ...

Caitlin Bloomer, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, found a crayfish so huge, she felt like it might be a record-setter. “I thought, ‘There’s no doubt I have ...

Every morning, millions of people wake up hoping to look, think and feel younger than they did yesterday. Featured Video The anti-aging industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, promising ...

Sarcopenia, or muscle loss and weakness, is among the crueler consequences of aging. Not only are you gradually robbed of your ability to perform everyday tasks, your walking speed slows down and your ...

A new study on the dismal mortality rate in the United States is out, and it’s bleak. The analysis from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Steven H. Woolf investigates life expectancy and age-based ...

For as long as there’s been life on Earth it’s been shielded by our planet’s magnetic field. And yet, we still don’t know a lot about how this invisible protector has shaped our biology. A new study ...