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Scientists are discovering that rather than tailing off, our curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our later years. Madeleine Finlay finds out what this new understanding could tell us about the best ways to stay sharp as we age .. ...

Review says ministers have only 'small chance' of wiping out bovine tuberculosis by 2038 without more investment ...

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age ...

Study finds scrollers are more prone to piles than those who go to the lavatory without phones ...

President says national security operations in space will be based in state he won comfortably, reversing Biden decision ...

Director general of Cern in the 1980s who went on to establish the Sesame laboratory in Jordan ...

When things are grim, the promises made by the wellness industry sound very appealing. I worry about how vulnerable this has made me ...

The unprecedented find has shifted archaeological understanding about the first civilisations in the Americas ...

Sighting by James Webb space telescope of black hole with sparse halo of material could upend theories of the universe ...

Science editor Ian Sample hears from health reporter Melody Schreiber and former CDC director Mandy Cohen to find out what a week of chaos at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention could mean for the health of Americans ...