Plant-based diets are associated with many long-term health benefits, but for older adults, there may be a potential downside. Eating a strictly vegetarian diet may make it harder to protect muscle ...

Before human explorers came along, the Seychelles archipelago was a haven for animals. The islands' relatively peaceful history, prior to the Age of Exploration, is written into the DNA of the ...

If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. It turns out, genetically speaking, they really are. Orange fur is one of the most recognizable traits in the feline ...

The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and use atomic clocks to measure slices of time as ...

Psychopathy is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it's not an official diagnosis any psychiatrist or psychologist will give. But the term is still widely used ...

When you start a medication and notice something different about your body, a question can follow: Is the drug responsible? Changes to your nails might prompt that question, too. In a new study, ...

While scientists are still continually learning what causes autism, there's already considerable evidence linking environmental exposures to the condition, in addition to genetic factors.

After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

Most of us have heard of the Mediterranean diet and its many health benefits, but there's another European eating plan that could also help you live longer. It's called the Nordic diet, and it is ...

If you could peer inside a cell's nucleus, you would find DNA tightly packed into a remarkably small space. But that arrangement presents a puzzle: DNA molecules carry the same negative electrical ...

Giving a child a smartphone before age 13 could be risky for some aspects of their mental health. In a new study of nearly 9,000 adolescents in the US, researchers found that owning a smartphone at ...

In a mountain village in the heart of Sardinia, Italy, something very special appears to be happening. On the same island, roughly 20 years ago, scientists identified the world's first so-called 'Blue ...