Medicine

Disabling and disruptive to the lives of sufferers, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects around 740,000 people...

Traffic pollution in European cities can stall children’s brain development and stop them from reaching their full...

By identifying the most influential kids in small social media circles, researchers can create positive peer pressure...

Half of European adults are either overweight or obese. Many turn to self-help apps as a means to burn excess fat, but...

To see Blade Runner 2049 in 3D might be a dazzling experience but how did 3D vision develop in the evolution? Is it...

10 scientific breakthroughs to shape Europe for the next 60 years

Society depends on farmers to feed the world. Many agriculture techniques from the past exacerbated problems, such as...

Death unites humanity. No matter your walk of life, you will die. It is perhaps the only fact that is truly universally...

For some people the issue of vaccination isn’t about facts, it’s a matter of faith, and this unshakable belief has...

Replacing lost brain cells may help undo the damage caused by Parkinson’s disease, researchers believe.

In the 1940s and 1950s, more than 40,000 “lobotomies” were performed in the USA alone. Doctors essentially removed the...

Call it fake news, false content, or propaganda, either way we are in a new era of misinformation and it’s influencing...

A set of 3D-printed lenses that are smaller than a grain of sand but can mimic eagle-eye vision came about thanks to a...

Recent research into understanding how bacteria can influence human behaviour has led to the surprising conclusion that...

Abnormalities of specific neural circuits relates to lack of flexibility in OCD, new research suggests

Forty-five years ago, the American nutritionist Ancel Keys launched the Seven Countries Study, the world’s first multi-...

Van Leeuwenhoek’s life is a great a scientific rags to riches story. Born in Delft, Holland, in 1632, he came from a...

A new technology that uses sound waves could show which cancer treatments work, and even help slow down cancer spread.

We know that exercise is good for our health in general, but we often don't think about how it affects specific...

Many of us are probably all too familiar with the looming dread that comes with the morning after a night of drinking....

There's a pill that can prevent HIV: don't you think it should be available?

Like a game of mental Battleships, neurolinguists work out how we process language by matching up brain injuries and...

There are important evolutionary reasons that explain the differences between men and women, and understanding them can...

The wingbeats of mute swans produce substantial noise to an earthbound listener, but have you ever thought of the noise...