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

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

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

Have you ever wondered how animals adapt to urban life, with its traffic jams and busy streets? A fascinating observation by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our bodies emit chemical messages in the form of scents that have mainly evolved for communication between humans. However, as dogs have a long history of domestication, living side by side with ...

Many people suffer from the transition from standard (winter) time to daylight saving time (a.k.a. summer time in Europe). If we elect to give up on changing the time twice a year altogether, what ...

The modern-day Sahara desert, located in the northern part of Africa, is the largest of its kind on the planet. It is hard to imagine that over 5000 years ago, it used to be green and covered with ...