Life-extending treatments may create inequality in lifespan, allowing some animals to live longer lives while others gain no benefit.

Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

Life is precious, and many of us try to do everything “right” to live longer. We eat better, move more, avoid pollutants, ...

A shopper comparing Babybel cheese purchased at Costco with that from another grocery store ended up conducting an impromptu ...

Bangladesh is on its way to graduate from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status. However, to become a prosperous nation, it must adopt new strategies for accelerated economic growth.

Why psychiatry’s diagnostic system may undergo major changes, and what the scientific debates over how mental illnesses should be defined are ...

Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, and enforcement ...

A key component of heritage is cuisine, and Goan heritage is characterised by the Portuguese post-colonial relics that have permeated many cultural domains and are reflected in its customs. Goan ...

Disease research has always been about understanding tiny pieces of life. Scientists study how cells behave when sickness ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Carolyn Kuechler and Marty Landorf, volunteers at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, work on separating the seeds from the chaff at the seed bank in the Rice ...