A large-scale study suggests that women who regularly drink caffeinated coffee may experience healthier aging.

According to research, when it comes to protecting your heart, what you eat may be just as important as the type of diet you ...

As people grow older they often seem to become less sociable. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change?

Earth and Venus are often called “sister planets” because they share some key characteristics. Like Earth, Venus is a terrestrial planet (i.e. composed of silicate minerals and metals) and orbits ...

The recent eruption of Mount Etna has once again reminded us of the raw power and unpredictability of Earth’s volcanoes. It inspired us to revisit this article. With volcanoes making headlines once ...

Colonizing Mars comes with a lot of challenges and quandaries. The first questions that come to mind are probably something akin to: 'how do we get people there?' and 'what do we take with us, and ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Around the world, millions of people suffer from Alzheimer's disease and that number is rising. As researchers search for ways to treat the condition, we slowly get to know more about it. Scientists ...

Whoever coined the phrase “it’s a small world” obviously never tried to travel around it! In truth, the planet’s dimensions are quite impressive, and determining just how big it is took many thousands ...