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The death of the world's oldest person at the age of 118 has reignited a debate that has divided scientists for centuries: is there a limit on how long a

The death of the world's oldest person at the age of 118 has reignited a debate that has divided scientists for centuries: is there a limit on how long a healthy human can live?

Medical advancements and improving living conditions have pushed limit back by a couple of decades

Great Danes are known for casting a shadow over most other dogs—and small children. Learn more about what makes this colossal canine tick.

Do you know the answers to these science questions? Study these 10 science questions you really should know how to answer.

The changes wrought upon dogs in the Victorian era were revolutionary, and brought about the adoption of breed as a sole way of thinking about and breeding varieties of dogs, which materially remodelled dogs’ bodies, as well as their genetics.

It took millennia to find out.  ‘In the High and Far off Times, the Elephant … had no trunk,’ wrote Rudyard Kipling. ‘He had just a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side.’ But there was one elephant’s child who was more curious than the rest. He wanted to know what the crocodile had for dinner. Since no one would tell him, he went down to the banks of the Limpopo to find out for himself. When he bent down to see, the crocodile bit his...