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Our friendly - and not so friendly - gut bacteria lie at the core of healthy ageing. Research is now revealing what it takes to maintain a youthful microbiome ...

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

Evidence shows that eating a longevity diet can dramatically lengthen your lifespan - and the sooner you start, the more of a difference it makes ...

Many of us know people who live into their 90s, but hardly anyone makes it to 100. Studies are now revealing that factors that really make a difference ...

AI tools including Perplexity and Open AI's GPT-4 often provide one-sided answers to contentious questions, and don't back up their arguments with reliable sources ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

Inflammation is a vital part of the immune response, but it seems that the system can sometimes go awry, resulting in chronic inflammation that has been linked to conditions such as cancer ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, suggesting missions must take stronger precautions to avoid contamination ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried - a tradition that continues to this day in some cultures ...

The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Russia, China and a host of tech giants are also betting big on small nuclear reactor designs. Does the idea make sense and can they really be built any time soon?