A NASA astronaut is seen as the Earth's surface passes by in the background on the International Space Station, in this ...

Stephanie Rafanelli sleeps out in Botswana’s Kalahari and Makgadikgadi salt flats to discover the secrets of a ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a dual regulatory mechanism safeguarding ...

Mitochondrial stress disrupts insulin production in diabetes, but reversing the damage may restore β-cell function.

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a spectrum of what were classically considered discrete mitochondrial DNA ...

Supun Dilshan won the Photographer of the Year Portfolio for “Trapped Between Worlds,” a set of images capturing the plight ...

Researchers say understanding how Zika virus spreads through the human placenta and reaches the fetus is critical to prevent or control the infection.

Scientists are designing a new type of drug that mimics the physiological benefits of breathing in thin 'mountain air'.

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish ...

People living in areas of the world with high numbers of centenarians all have one thing in common - they drink a certain hot beverage multiple times a day ...

For women, there’s an added layer of complication: We are not the focus of the longevity lifehack movement, led by men like ...