It was many years ago, but apple-farming guru Akinori Kimura remembers his breakthrough well.
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, blood pressure issues and other common plagues are almost unheard of among the Hunza.
The discovery of a girl reportedly living with monkeys in the forests of northern India has been compared to a modern-day Jungle Book but officials and doctors close to the child say the true story is darker.
The proportion of people who have never married by age 50 hit a record 23.37 percent for men, up 3.23 percentage points from the previous survey in 2010, and a record 14.06 percent for women, up 3.45 points.
Taiwan has outlawed the consumption of dog and cat meat, as the island's legislature on Tuesday passed a landmark amendment to its animal protection laws.
Authors of Can Clean Air Make You Happy? say exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be as damaging as ‘big-hitting’ life events.
Despite a countrywide effort to end overwork, Japan's push to make people leave work early hasn't gone exactly as planned.
Building a house by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. Numerous homebuilders have chosen to automate part of the construction (i.e., by printing the home's parts) instead.
If you are cut off somewhere in the desert, you could survive because of this device
"Family comes first," Mrs. Fink told the provincial lottery organisers. "We want to make sure that our daughters and our grandkids are looked after."