For most of the 20th century, each successive decade added about three extra years to people’s average lifespan in developed ...

For much of the 20th century, the average lifespan in developed countries increased steadily, adding about three years each ...

Shrews evolved high heart rates by losing protein regulation. This discovery could help human heart treatments.

The findings indicate that the naked mole-rat's immune system has significantly realigned and is using ...

Residents in North Carolina remain displaced on Sept. 28, after Hurricane Helene brought historic flooding to western parts ...

Advances in extending the human lifespan have slowed in recent decades, leaving it unlikely many of today’s children will ...

The shrew's resting heart rate can reach up to 17 beats per second, equivalent to about 1,020 beats per minute. In comparison ...

Then, our own governor gets up and makes a thin attempt at denouncing the kooks before proceeding to inelegantly Both Sides ...

In the 1940s, RAAF planes took aerial photographs of the Great Sandy Desert, capturing something valuable: the patterns of ...

Life expectancy gains have substantially slowed in wealthier nations, which appear to be nearing a limit to improvements ...

A new study shows that bitter tasting protein fragments (peptides) are produced in the stomach during the digestion of the natural sweetener thaumatin. In a cellular test system, the peptides are able ...

Famous for its iconic wildlife, Africa is home to nature and cultures that can be found nowhere else on Earth. Unfortunately, ...