The advantages of living in cities for children and adolescents’ healthy growth and development are shrinking across much of the world, according to new study.

High blood caffeine levels may reduce body weight and type 2 diabetes risk

Respiratory disease in early childhood linked to higher risk of death for adults

The hormone kisspeptin could be used to treat women and men distressed by their low sexual desire, according to two new studies

Scientists find first evidence that black holes are the source of dark energy

Gap between rich and poor has increased more quickly in the US than in Europe

Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable

Rock samples from the Jezero crater analysed by the Perseverance rover show evidence of liquid water and signatures that could be organic compounds, study finds

Rock coasts, which make up over half the world’s coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise, study finds

An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as the climate warms.

New flexible, steerable device placed in live brains by minimally invasive robot

A new study has found no livebirths were achieved in women who underwent egg freezing after 40 years old

Scientists have engineered mosquitoes that slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites in their gut, preventing transmission of malaria to humans

Researchers have solved a key hurdle in greener manufacturing, carbon capture, energy storage

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A Single AI-Enhanced Brain Scan Can Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate for 5,500 years, finds study

T cells block nerve cell regeneration with age, but can be reversed – mice study

Research has found people who responded to psilocybin-assisted therapy showed increased brain connectivity not just during their treatment, but up to three weeks afterwards

Study points to worrying fitness levels in some young teens

Scientists found patients who had both SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, and influenza viruses were more than four times more likely to require ventilation support and 2.4 times more likely to die than if they just had Covid-19.

Clean energy investing makes financial sense as well as climate sense, new report says

An icy barrier up to 300 stories high – taller than any building on Earth – may have prevented the first people from entering the New World over the land bridge that once connected Asia with the Americas

A new approach to producing realistic expressions of pain on robotic patients could help to reduce error and bias during physical examination.

Scientists have found approximately 1,000 plant species were newly identified as potential sources of five different B vitamins: B1, B2, B3, B5 and B9

UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to reduce COVID19 spread

Omicron appears "mild" mostly because infected people are younger, vaccinated, previously infected, or all three

Previous research has found that people who are isolated and lonely are more likely to smoke

T cells from common colds cross-protect against infection with SARS-CoV-2

Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses

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