Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research

A gene in the brain driving anxiety symptoms has been identified, modification of the gene is shown to reduce anxiety levels, offering an exciting novel drug target for anxiety disorders

With higher levels of the stress hormone corticosterone, pet rabbits need to be able to hop, run, jump, dig and stretch out fully when lying down — as well as the freedom to exercise in the morning and afternoon

Counterportation: creating a traversable wormhole that verifiably bridges space in the lab with a novel quantum computing scheme

Global emissions of five banned ozone-destroying chemicals are increasing, despite their production being banned for most uses — likely due to a loophole in the Montreal Protocol

Scientists observed that group safety and efficiency was improved when animals paid attention to the behaviours of each other and supress individual personalities

Memories could be lost if two key brain regions -the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex- fail to sync together, study finds

A link between depression and changes in counts of several types of immune cells in the blood has been revealed by researchers, this suggests that changes to different components of our immune system — both the innate and adaptive immune response — could play a role in causing depression

Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation

Anti-aging gene shown to rewind heart age by 10 years

Women with high body dissatisfaction, when compared to women with low body dissatisfaction, directed their gaze more frequently and for longer durations towards low weight female body stimuli

Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders

Teeth of the first dinosaurs show that ancestors of plant-eating dinosaurs (like the Diplodocus) ate meat

Scientists invent pioneering technique to construct rare molecules discovered in sediments from the Bahamas with potential to help treat disease and infection

Pocket feature shared by deadly coronaviruses could lead to pan-coronavirus antiviral treatment

New international study concludes digital media can fuel polarisation and populism

New research has shown an association between sleep quality – less than seven hours - and Alzheimer's disease-related pathology in people without cognitive impairment

People smoke more when smoking cigarettes from larger size packs: according to new research on 252 participants, they smoked 1.3 fewer cigarettes per day or 7.6% fewer from packs of 20 cigarettes…

Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, researchers have observed, for the first time, seismic waves propagating along the surface of a planet other than Earth

New research shows US Republican politicians increasingly spread news on social media from untrustworthy sources

A woman’s mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, because the essential nutrients in the fish could be protective against the mercury content of the fish

Researchers reveal how an insect-eating plant uses rain energy to power its deadly traps, this is the only know plant to exploit an external energy source to achieve extremely fast movement – entirely free of metabolic costs

Scientists, through genetic data analysis on 421,738 people, discovered 14 inherited genetic changes which significantly increase the risk of a person developing a symptomless blood disorder associated with the onset of some types of cancer/leukemia and heart disease

Moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls. Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough

New study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world, also shows heatwaves are projected to get hotter in future with climate change

Insect-sized flying robots with flapping wings

The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team.

Analysis of three studies with a total of 131,421 participants aged 40 years and older reports that watching TV for 4 hours a day or more is associated with a 35% higher risk of blood clots compared with less than 2.5 hours

Study: Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report

People strongly favour a fairer and more sustainable way of life in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite not thinking it will actually materialise or that others share the same progressive wishes, according to new research which sheds intriguing light on what people want for the future

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