As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

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Here's where mistletoe becomes an unexpected hero. Scientists have discovered that extracts from mistletoe can stimulate the ...

In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from ...

They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by ...

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of the ginseng family, as scientists ...

In a surprise conclusion to a project dubbed The Final Experiment, several well-known believers in a non-spherical Earth have ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

The United States has redefined what qualifies as "healthy" food for the first time in 30 years, striking items like white ...

The number of people classed as obese in the US has dipped for the first time in more than a decade, giving experts some hope ...