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Viewpoint: 6-week brain hack — ‘Simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains and change how they work’
There's good reason to want to boost our brain – an increasing number of studies suggest it can play a role in delaying ...
3-inch live worm found wiggling in woman’s brain explains mystery health symptoms
In a world first, scientists say an 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian ...
Strawberries are often perfectly shaped, humongous and uniform — but the flavor leaves much to be desired. Genetic engineering could change that
Native strawberries have been grown in the British Isles for centuries. But the ones we eat today are the product ...
Old polio vaccines can mutate into a dangerous version of the disease — but a new ‘super-engineered’ vaccine is much safer
Scientists have "super-engineered" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis ...
AI helps discover new drug that kills antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’
Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug ...
10% of the human genome is made up of viruses. Here’s how they helped shape our species’ evolution
Devastating pandemics, viruses have also played an important role in human evolution – and without them you wouldn't be here ...
Could there be health benefits to delaying or preventing menopause through medical intervention?
The new science of the menopause: The 'change' is a turning point in women's lives that we still don't fully ...
Slowing the advance of Alzheimer’s: Lilly’s donanemab joins lecanemab as drugs shown to limit beta amyloid plaque buildup in brains
We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown ...
Newest anxiety treatment? Smelling other people’s body odor
Sniffing other people's body odour might be useful in therapy for social anxiety, say Swedish researchers who have started tests ...
World’s most premature twins: Canadian siblings born 18 weeks early are healthy one year later
A Canadian brother and sister born at 22 weeks have been named by Guinness as the world's most premature twins ...
Naked evolution: Why humans don’t have fur
Scientists don't definitively know the reason behind this change from thicker, coarser fur to these light vellus hairs, and they ...
No human genome has ever been read in its entirety before. This year, that might change
No human genome has ever been read in its entirety before. This year, scientists expect to pass that milestone for ...
Does gut bacteria ‘control’ your brain? Exploring connections between our microbiomes and mental health
Looking after the multitudes of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms living in our guts could help us think better and ...
‘Death shouldn’t be society’s solutions for its own failures’ Canada’s assisted death program — which will soon include the mentally ill — under scrutiny for making death ‘a solution that disadvantages the most vulnerable’
Since 2016, Canada's medical assistance in dying programme - known by its acronym 'Maid' - has been available for adults ...
Hi-tech coatings and other ways to help slow spoiling of fruits and vegetables
The problem of rotting apples and mouldering grain may have been a matter of season-to-season survival for our ancestors. Today ...
Strep throat, flu, RSV: What’s behind recent strange patterns of common childhood illnesses?
RSV, Strep A, the flu: a range of familiar bugs are worrying doctors and parents with strange new patterns. What's ...
Plastic pollution epidemic: Microplastics have found their way into our fruits and veggies
Unwittingly, we may be consuming tiny fragments of plastic with almost every bite we take. In 2022, analysis by the Environmental ...
Sustainable metrics: How much carbon, land and energy does your dinner require?
So, what would a protein-rich, low-carbon diet really look like? Just how bad for the climate are meat and dairy? ...
Dinosaurs most likely lived near the North Pole. How did they survive?
It was the middle of winter under a moody Alaskan sky. On one side stretched the flat expanse of the ...
‘Redesigning the immune system’: Experimental personalized medical treatment helps body defeat cancer by boosting tumor-spotting cells
People with untreatable cancers have had their immune system redesigned to attack their own tumours. The experimental study involved only ...
Some Kenyans eager to embrace GM crops to fight escalating drought, but opposition remains
As Kenya prepares to commercialise genetically modified crops, there is resistance from some farmers and campaign groups, who question their ...
Underground farms, aquatic meals and more: What would our food system evolve into if an asteroid hit Earth?
Imagine a giant asteroid strikes the Earth a few years from now, blocking out the Sun and collapsing agriculture worldwide ...
DNA USB key? How we could store data for potentially thousands of years using the genetic code
The information stored in DNA defines what it is to be human (or any other species for that matter). But ...
You don’t always retain the eye color you’re born with. Here’s a genetic explanation why
Evidence suggests that whether a baby's eye colour changes or not depends a lot on the colour itself. One study ...
Can ginger, chili peppers or green tea keep you full for longer? Scientist fact-checks common diet claims
It's likely that your weekly shop is packed with packaging promising that the food inside will taste great, stay fresh ...
Ancient toys found in archaeological digs are changing perspectives on children in early civilizations
Over the two decades that archaeologist Gus Van Beek excavated Tell Jemmeh, an Assyrian settlement inhabited from around 3,800 to ...
Our microbiomes respond positively to exercise, giving us a digestive boost
There is certainly no shortage of studies in humans that show doing moderate to vigorous exercise such as running, cycling and resistance ...
Targeting 2024: The quest to create a universal COVID vaccine
Jonathan Heeney and colleagues face a challenge that has long proved insurmountable for scientists: to develop vaccines that can not ...
