This week in science: sleep found to be a key factor in life expectancy; cats meow twice as much at men as at women; a ...

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

The Beatles' song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the "hypnagogic state". This is the twilight zone ...

Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth's crust, scientists have at long last caught solar neutrinos ...

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

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

You should also be able to get a good show by watching the sky on the nights either side of the peak – clear skies pending.

What you gain in a day by staying up late might be curtailing how long you live, according to a new study linking ...

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

The new guidelines also emphasize the fact that diet can have a major impact on blood pressure. They recommend that all ...

A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive ...

In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in ...