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Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously unknown adaptation to aging that actively remodels one of the largest and most complex structures in our cells.

Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons.

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago - raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we might be affected by the next one.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Researchers in China have found a potential new biomarker of Parkinson's disease hiding in human hair.

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

The poisonous death cap mushroom gives the entire fungi kingdom a bad rap, and it turns out they're not only spreading across continents, they're rapidly evolving, too.

Everybody knows that galaxies are large structures made of stars.