Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical health. Sleep disturbances have been linked to poorer immune responses against ...

On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over computers in its ability to transfer skills and learn across tasks.

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, ...

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention – a marker of how willing people are to ...

The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery.

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of ...

A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

Exposure to material children never intended to see adds risk, and the design of short-form video apps can make this far more ...

"Most dementia research understandably focuses on changes associated with [age-related cognitive] decline in later life. But ...

The regular consumption of eight energy drinks a day may have contributed to a mild stroke in a middle-aged man in the UK.

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...