(Pirotehnik/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Giving birth to more than the average number of children or having no children at all ...

Unlike most frontier neuroscience projects that rely primarily on state funding, this one has been built through a rare mix ...

Schizophrenia risk may reflect two brain pathways with different cortical and subcortical balance. Early language learning ...

For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.

Worrying about getting older—especially fearing future health problems—may actually speed up aging at the cellular level, according to new research from NYU. In a study of more than 700 women, those ...

Taking a daily multivitamin for two years slowed biological aging by four months, based on several DNA-based biomarkers — but a healthy lifestyle still matters.

Oxygen is critical to life. When levels of oxygen change, it can have immediate and lasting impacts on a person's health.

Many older adults improve their physical and cognitive health over time, overturning the idea that aging equates to a decline ...

A randomized clinical trial involving 958 older adults suggests that taking a daily multivitamin for two years may produce a small, statistically significant slowdown in two measures of biological ...

A steady slide into frailty is the story many people tell themselves about old age. The numbers in a long-running federal ...

Religion, perhaps, is the most important invention of the human mind. It is said that there are more religions in the world than spoken languages! According to Ethnologue, a website considered to be ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...