On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

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The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn't mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in ...

A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) comes with a wave of uncertainty about how the condition will progress. Now, new research points to a potential mechanism and treatment target for those who are ...

A sleep apnea pill has been fast-tracked for FDA approval; the earliest evidence of surgical anesthetic detected on tools from more than 600 years ago; strange spacetime 'crystals', and much more!

Scientists at the University of California San Diego, Stanford, and Oxford have now invented a wearable ultrasound patch, called UPatch. Mariana Tome, study co-author and obstetrics doctor at the ...

In other words, some of the changes that caloric restriction gives in animals and thought to confer certain health benefits also appear with a hypertension drug that many people a ...

The Sun is not known for being quiet. It blasts out energy equivalent to 100 billion nuclear bombs every single second, ...

If you've ever tried to overhaul a garden, you know you're bound to find broken bits of pottery and long-forgotten statuary swallowed by vines.

Who needs trainspotting when there are so many different moods of the full Moon to see? And the full Moon that will grace ...

And it makes Nagatitan the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia. An illustration showing the skeleton of N. chaiyaphumensis, with the preserved bones highlighted in yellow.

In the wake of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago, three-quarters of the plant and ...