Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the ...

Cells shrink a major internal structure as they age. New research shows this downsizing is deliberate—and linked to longer ...

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

By Sola Ogundipe Scientists have found that a common brain cancer may begin in normal-looking brain cells years before a ...

New research challenges the century-old practice of mapping the brain based on how tissue looks under a microscope. By analyzing electrical signals from thousands of neurons in mice, scientists ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...