I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying," Woody Allen once wrote in his inimitable purple prose.

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

Keratin is the tough protein that forms hair, nails and hooves. It’s also responsible for something far stranger: human horns ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

Alice Gorman receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is also co-vice chair of the Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities and a fellow of the Outer Space Institute. Art ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

For all the hype around AI in the enterprise, most of the attention has been on what the models can do—not how people actually use them. But as AI moves from experimental pilot projects toward mission ...

Scientists that won an infamous 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus" may indeed have the last laugh. They've now completed a successful ...

There are parts of the world in which people won't be able to cool by sweating if this trajectory continues. Those claiming that concerns over climate change are rooted in hysteria are badly mistaken ...