Medicine

Learning new things prevents dementia...

Excerpt from Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

Emotional response to city design could guide urban planning...

Why eschewing tech may be good for mental well-being...

Transplant recipients may soon have a test to protect against organ rejection...

The modern-day equivalent of a scale pan for molecules

To treat an eating disorder, we need to know what emotion fuels it...

Teenagers weigh in on the debate...

Each day, approximately 130 Americans die from an opioid overdose...

Could a cancer vaccine, currently in dogs, make its way into humans?

Individual differences and interpreting online behaviour: harassment or over-sensitivity?

Can gut microbes and genes do the job of weight loss surgery?

Psychedelic therapy may be our best treatment for depression. So must we lose our minds to come to our senses?

Reading, playing chess or learning a new language may help to slow degeneration in Huntington's disease...

What is the noise from whale-watching boats doing to the inner ears of marine mammals?

How can better understanding how we walk help people with cerebral palsy?

Why do injuries often lead to scars...

How thoughts can help us shed extra pounds, without the exhaustion...

What are the effects of using more antibiotics in animals than humans...

It's something we do every day, but most of us don't think twice about it...

Scientists pick the discoveries that would revolutionise their fields in 2019

There are multiple clocks in the body: how do they tick to the same rhythm?

A study of more than half a million blood samples has allowed scientists to pinpoint the risk factors for a rare type...

A trainee clinical geneticist talks to a mother whose child suffered from a genetic disease...