Parkinson's also presents and progresses differently in males and females. The study found women were younger than men at time of symptom onset (63.7 versus 64.4 years) and diagnosis (67.6 versus 68.1 ...

The Saronicos Project, a major scientific initiative led by the Athanasios K. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation, has launched an ambitious effort to ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.

A plastic tub rigged with tubing stood in for the network of underground pipes, pump stations and canals that drain New ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

A company claims to have simulated the neurons of an adult fruit fly's brain and letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.

Work is continuing on all fronts because millions of Americans understand what is at stake and majorities of Americans ...

Inflammation is a natural defense used by the body to protect itself. When we get a cut, infection, or injury, the immune ...

Scientists studying crops irrigated with treated wastewater discovered that trace pharmaceuticals often collect in plant leaves. Tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce absorbed medications such as ...

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...