From Keto to Atkins to carnivore diets, carbohydrates have become a bogeyman of nutrition. It's easy to see why – many of the ...

It is always worth paying attention when someone wins a Nobel Prize for their life’s work, but a couple of awards this year ...

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National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner coined the term “blue zones” while researching different hot spots for longevity ...

Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

It may not help us predict their behavior, but the author thinks it will help people understand physics better.

That old saying about death and taxes being the only certainties in life has been disproven by physicists, who have revealed ...

Every October, the Nobel Prize committee awards the coveted prize to laureates in six categories: physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature, peace, and economics. Economics was added ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...