Usain Bolt, the world's fastest person, ran a 100-meter sprint at a speed of 23.35 miles per hour (37.57 kilometers per hour) ...

Led by zoologist Kai Caspar from Heinrich Heine University in Germany, the new study found that the brain size measurements ...

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"We have demonstrated for the first time that humans can safely run horizontally in low gravity conditions inside a cylinder, ...

Brain implant technology is rapidly advancing, helping people to find their voice or beat neurological disorders.

The presence of parasitic microbes has for the first time been found literally altering the metabolism of their hosts.

In medieval England, humans lived in much closer quarters with red squirrels than most of us do today. And that's not just ...

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While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Earth's magnetic field nearly collapsed some 590 million years ago, presumably putting life on the planet's surface at risk ...

Humans are far from the only animal known to use nature as a medicine cabinet to soothe their pains and ailments.

As the world's aging population grows, and dementia, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis reach epidemic levels, people ...