Rancid food smells and tastes gross ? AI tools may help scientists prevent that spoilage.

How dangerous is insomnia? How fear of what it’s doing to your body can wreck your sleep.

‘I’m not going to be cured’. How breast cancer awareness and support sidelines people with metastatic disease

We found that even in non-seasonal animals, differences in light hours between summer and winter do cause differences in energy metabolism. In this case, body weight, fat mass, and liver fat content.

Steep physical decline with age is not inevitable – here’s how strength training can change the trajectory

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f there’s one area where shelled fruits [JN1] have proved their worth, it’s bringing cholesterol down.

When likening each basic emotion to a tool, an emotion’s expression serves the purpose of problem solving. 

In today's intricate food landscape, sugar, with its many guises, emerges as a particularly misleading protagonist.

Insomnia is a well-recorded preoccupation in history. It includes difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep, and comes with daytime distress and anxiety.

Spicy food might burn in the moment, but it likely won’t harm your health in the long term

Are people born with good balance? A physical therapist explains the systems that help keep you on your toes

Experts from Yale University have answers for you about the newly updated COVID-19 vaccines.

Cosmetic surgery boosts some people’s mental health – but for others it makes problems worse

Every year, around 2.4 million people in the UK get food poisoning – mostly from viral or bacterial contamination. Most people recover within a few days without treatment, but not all are that lucky.

Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for monitoring daily activity levels.

Tobacco companies have manipulated people's health with tobacco products, causing immeasurable harm and leading to countless preventable diseases. But...

Fish oil, which contains omega-3 fatty acids, is promoted for a number of health benefits – from boosting our heart health, protecting our brain from dementia, and easing the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

People in the oldest stage of life who regularly engage in aerobic activities and strength training exercises perform better on cognitive tests than those who are either sedentary or participate only in aerobic exercise.

The ancients knew about Earth’s powers long before science did, of course, naturally benefitting from its nourishment by their simple lifestyles alone. They lived as one with the Earth...

Gaslight, a psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman, was a box-office hit when it was released in 1944, but its time in the limelight could have ended there.

Correctly flossing boosts chances for avoiding gum disease, dental researchers say.

Travelling on a train recently you couldn’t help but overhear two women deep in conversation about a mutual obsession with food, including emotional triggers that pushed them towards chocolate and pizza.

When you go to the doctor, you expect they’ll listen to your concerns and help fix whatever problem you may be experiencing.