Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London in London, UK have developed a ...

In recent years, substantial progress has been made in understanding biological and genetic sources of variation in feed ...

But this year, the silence in my living room will be deafening as, for the first time in nearly a decade, I will be waking up ...

Some restaurants + a few “select location” chains stay open on Christmas Day. Check OpenTable/Resy fast, and still call ahead ...

Correspondence to Professor Alex Bottle, School of Public Health, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, W12 7TA, UK; robert.bottle{at}imperial.ac.uk In healthcare, as in life, the adage ...

what is the grand arrangement of the tree of life in terms of kingdoms and phyla? That is, we will move across the entire spectrum from individual identification to higher level systematics. Largely ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

"Winds aloft are true" means the direction is referenced to "true north" (the Earth's geographic axis) rather than "magnetic north." True north is the geographic axis around which the Earth rotates, ...

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is not necessarily a solution for someone with a rare, monogenic disease. Indeed, more than half of families with suspected rare monogenic diseases do not have an answer ...