Medicine

Antidepressants have long been surrounded by controversy: are too many people taking them? Or are doctors too reluctant...

Micro- and nano-robots built for medical purposes have the potential to venture deep within our bodies to repair damage...

I often get a rock or a twig for my birthday. It probably sounds a bit odd, but you see, we lichenologists - people who...

What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and how can we better monitor and treat it?

We have all been there. You have just sat down, perhaps on a train or in a lecture, when the person next to you sneezes...

A guide to the latest genome editing technology...

Every time Tim sees the letter “E,” he also sees the color red...

A new tool that uses molecular clues to determine what someone has eaten and a better understanding of how genes affect...

For many people who struggle to get a good night’s rest, being able to switch on and off the brain circuits that...

“…Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart”, tweeted Donald...

New portraits of the evolution of some of history’s deadliest pandemics have been created through analysis of thousands...

A master controller inspired by a computer game.

Research has revealed that our microbiome can fluctuate with the seasons.

There is growing evidence from scientific studies that individuals can become addicted to using social networking sites...

Glasses that translate images of physical objects into soundscapes and a belt that turns images into vibrations are...

In the spring of 2015 my mother-in-law was dying of breast cancer. She had exhausted the usual routes of therapy...

Where is the HIV vaccine? It is a fair question, is it not?

Is a cure for HIV on the horizon, and what does cure, in the context of HIV, really mean?

Did the evolutionary process towards musical abilities begin in the primeval oceans? And have Human footsteps...

Movie directors regularly manipulate the passage of time in films to entertain their audiences, but researchers are...

As most people know, all surgeries — no matter how minor — are risky for patients. Things can go wrong during the...

Lively—almost childlike—the 70-year-old men skipped out of a monastery one fine morning. They’d just spent five days...

What if an app could recognise when you are craving unhealthy food and give you a notification to warn you not to eat...