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

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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 ...

A previously unknown disease that has claimed the lives of dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to be malaria ...

The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper into ...