We are deeply intuitively familiar with our everyday physical world, so it was perhaps a bit of a surprise when researchers ...

Throughout history, poets, scholars, and scientists have acknowledged the profound link between sleep and psychological well-being. The wisdom of “sleep on it”, ingrained in both Western and ...

The year 2024 has seen many weddings in the showbiz world, including singer Usher getting hitched to Jennifer Goicoechea in February and the comedy star Rebel Wilson and fashion designer Ramona Agruma ...

Two-thirds of us choose the same Whether it's tying your shoelaces or doing up your tie, many of us use knots on a daily basis. Despite this, research has shown that humans are 'terrible' at judging ...

DNA’s iconic double helix has long been the symbol of life’s blueprint. However, the human genome conceals far more ...

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But as we have seen with other influenza strains, the virus continues to evolve. There have been reports of humans being infected without a clear animal contact. A research paper this month ...

Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Over the past 50,000 years, humans have populated nearly every corner of the globe — and due to geographic barriers, some of these populations then remained isolated for thousands or even tens ...

The most immediate concern is that mirror bacteria could evade the immune systems of humans, animals and plants. Our immune defences rely on recognising conserved molecular patterns found in ...

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