An expanding arcade of video games takes aim at easing autism traits, from poor visual attention to problems with motor skills, b...

Biologist George Church says the idea is to live to 130 in the body of a 22-year-old.

A powerful genome editing tool can be deployed as an ace DNA detective, able to sniff out DNA snippets that signal viral infectio...

A team of Sydney scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in telomere biology, with implications for conditions ranging fro...

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Americans’ acceptance of assisted reproductive technologies has evolved alongside their increased usage, as we’ve gotten used to ...

We are as old as our arteries, the adage goes, so could reversing the aging of blood vessels hold the key to restoring youthful v...

Fixing the ‘problem’ of ageing is the new mission of Silicon Valley, where billions is pouring into biotech firms working to ‘hac...

For 50 years scientists have been probing our deepest oceans to better understand how our planet works, but we still know more ab...

"Now more than ever we know that every bit of warming matters," said one of the report's authors.

The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets -- so where are all the aliens? Astronome...

Have you heard? A revolution has seized the scientific community. Within only a few years, research labs worldwide have adopted a...

Science can do a better job explaining the miracle of life, Hawking says in his final book.

Holding global warming to a critical limit would require "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of so...

Some of the first research to make use of data from the UK's Biobank show the incredible potential for genetic research into ...