New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has ...

New research indicates the hard limit on human life is 150 years. The main factor limiting our lifespan is a loss of the ability to bounce back after a setback, called “physiological resilience.” Even ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

In the early 2000s, Drew persuaded the U.S. military to fund a search for the brain chemicals that trigger hibernation in the ...

New research suggests that exercise may not just make us feel younger—it could actually slow or even reverse the body’s ...

We asked nutritionists Ola Anabtawi and Berta Valente to explain the science behind starvation and what happens ...

Specific genetic modifications allowed the lung to survive the body’s hyperacute rejection, where the body attacks the organ, within a few hours.

A human embryo-like structure generated from reprogrammed stem cells. The future body cells are colored green and the amnion, pink, form on opposite sides, separated by the amniotic cavity.

"The only thing to fear, is fear itself", but is that true? And what is fear anyway? Myf Warhurst discovers that most of our ...