Spaceflight can be brutal on the human body – bones lose density, muscles atrophy, the immune system goes haywire – and countermeasures will be necessary if large numbers of people will be routinely ...

Editor's Note: An excerpt of this interview appeared in Cognoscenti's weekly Sunday newsletter of ideas and opinions. To become a subscriber, sign up here. Amy Boyd Rabin, the vice president for ...

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 ...

Vaillant is the award winning author of The Golden Spruce and The Tiger. His new book is Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World A friend in Brooklyn DMed me on Sunday: “Skies here in Brooklyn ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other ...