The "natural experiment" caused by the shutdown of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 2-h shift in the sleep of developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness compared to those experienced under the regular school-time schedule

Scientists have found an increased global mortality linked to arsenic exposure in rice-based diets.

People who inherited a special ion channel from Neanderthals experience more pain.

Scientists confirm a 100 year old (but since then debunked) hypothesis that single-celled organisms are capable of hierarchical decision making (varied responses to irritant particles) - they were able to reproduce the results using the same S

Scientists find a mutation in a gene called ADRB1 allows individuals in one family to sleep as little as 4.5 hours per night without feeling tired - they then bred rats with the same mutation…

Certain PTSD therapies prove effective long after patients stop treatment

Being high in 'neuroticism' and low in 'conscientiousness' can come at a cost in terms of income a new study has found

Health staff 'too stressed' to deal with disasters. Staff suffer from increasing workload and stricter performance measures with less flexibility

When it comes to our brains, there's no such thing as normal, says researchers. There's nothing wrong with being a little weird

Poaching Has Caused Bornean Orangutan Populations To Collapse Over The Past Two Decades

A team of researchers in China has, for the first time, created new ears for human patients by growing cartilage and implanting it.

Callous and unemotional traits show in brain structure of boys only, study finds

Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals

An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory hallucination may help reduce symptoms…

The vast majority of children and adolescents who receive cognitive behavioural therapy treatment for OCD thrive and live without symptoms a year after the end of treatment.

White men who exercise at high levels are 86 percent more likely than people who exercise at low levels to experience a buildup of plaque in the heart arteries by middle age, a new study suggests

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a 'cloud' of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely breathed in the ash and fumes are showing early signs of risk for future heart disease.

TB Vaccine Doesn't Protect Against Recurrent Wheezing in Babies