Health benefits from natural sounds
Our sounds harm ecological communication, but do their sounds help us?
Adding to the myriad benefits bestowed by nature, scientists report that natural sounds alone – such as waterfalls an...
Body and Mind
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Alcohol metabolised in brain, not liver
Blame metabolites in the brain for drunk shambling.
A paper published in Nature Metabolism has revealed new information about an enzyme in the brain that’s responsible f...
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A sugar tax is good for all
The UK’s sugar tax hasn’t affected overall buying habits but has reduced sugar intake.
A study has found that, a year after the introduction of a sugar tax, people were still purchasing the same amount of...
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Rich feelings: better or worse?
Study suggests the wealthy have greater self-regard, but aren’t more compassionate.
It’s the age-old question: we all want money, but does it make us happy? Invariably, the answer is nuanced but some c...
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Homo sapiens: the water-saving ape
Humans evolved to run on less water than primate relatives.
It’s an age-old question in evolution: how did humans become the dominant primate, able to venture out from tropical ...
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Interactive dreaming
Scientists communicate with people while they’re asleep.
Scientists say they’ve achieved an “outlandish” phenomenon, showing that it’s possible to have two-way dialogue with ...
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Data dearth
Access to clean big data could help us clear up a raft of COVID-19 questions.
The data is in: children really are less susceptible to COVID-19, and more than 20% of US and UK residents are likely...
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Breast cancer focus
Research groups find increased prevalence and suggest earlier screening.
Breast cancer has hit the spotlight. While a global study finds it has now overtaken lung cancer as the world’s most ...
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Quick saviour?
Ketamine shows signs of reducing the desire to suicide.
Ketamine has a wild reputation. It’s used as party drug thanks to its hallucinogenic effect, but it’s also widely use...
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Hearts stopped young
Deaths from cardiac disease aren’t just an oldies’ problem.
Sometimes, the heart just stops for no perceivable reason. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a prevalent hidden killer, ...
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Forget-me-not neurons
Our brains are hardwired with visual working memory.
How do you know where something is when you can no longer see it? Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Tau tangles brains
Toxic leakage of an otherwise useful cell protein leads to Alzheimer’s.
As if Alzheimer’s wasn’t vicious enough, researchers have found the wrong type of breakthrough – a brutal process whe...