Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer’s disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems. They said these mice were far more adept at sensing changes in their environment than their [...]

Overweight and obese people get less out of resistance training than leaner people do, researchers said on Friday in a study that suggests the overweight may have to try harder to get results.

You don’t have to look like Joe Dirt when you haul your Memorial Day barbecue detritus to the curb tomorrow if you chunk it in these snootier-than-thou fashionable trash bags.

Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters, British researchers reported on Sunday.

It is used by more than 100,000 commuters a day, visited by as many as a million tourists a month, and crossed by 40 million drivers a year. Its bold beauty is staggering, its mystique legendary.

You might call it a tale of “monkey see, monkey do.”  Researchers at Ohio University have found that after primates evolved the ability to see red, they began to develop red and orange skin and hair.

“Sit down a spell. That can wait.” That’s the mantra of the Professional Porch Sitters Union, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek organization founded in 1999 by Claude Stephens of Louisville, Ky. The Union got its start when Stephens and a group of friends gathered on his porch after a busy day of meetings on behalf of an [...]

At just four months, babies can tell the difference between two languages spoken to them by the expressions on the speakers’ faces, according to a new study by Canadian researchers on Thursday.

Yes, our love affair with the automobile continues, but here are some vehicles so crazy that only a mother could love them.