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A new tool can spot diet and nutrition misinformation—and measure its risk of harm
A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content’s risk for potential ...
Common belief about periods: Women are less mentally agile during menstruation. Fact: Reaction times improve
Belief about periods: Women are less mentally agile during menstruation. Fact: Reaction times improve, according to new research ...
Humans are born with brains roughly comparable to small primates — then humans have a brain development boom
A new study challenges the belief that human newborns have significantly less developed brains than other primates ...
Neanderthal links: Here’s how nose shape evolved in modern humans
Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL ...
200,000-women study concludes that ovarian cancer screening with ultrasounds or blood tests does not reduce early deaths
In the UK, 4,000 women die from ovarian cancer each year. It is not usually diagnosed until it is at ...
Researchers tackle questions on origin of life on Earth
All life on Earth came from one common ancestor – a single-celled organism – but what it looked like, how ...
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, alcoholism may have common genetic link
A rare gene variant discovered by UCL scientists is associated with an increased risk of developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and ...