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Hyrox is one of the fastest-growing fitness trends out there.
Muscle loss increases fall risk and frailty with age. The good news? Just one weekly strength session can help maintain independence.
What you don’t see when you burn a candle.
Specific rhythms of flickering light can synchronise brain activity, offering clues about perception and possible future therapies.
Six US aircrew ejected over Kuwait after a friendly fire incident. Surviving the bailout may be the easy part.
Teeth, placentas and surgical remains are being saved and even consumed. Here is what medicine says about safety.
Hay fever affects roughly one in four UK adults.
Celebrity-backed devices promise meditative ‘sober trips’. Researchers are studying how rhythmic light reshapes visual experience and mood.
A generational sales ban could transform smoking rates. Success depends on enforcement, funding and resisting industry pressure.
Modern screening can create patients out of people who never needed treatment in the first place.
Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.
The idea that autistic people lack a ‘theory of mind’ has shaped ASD research for 40 years. The evidence never supported it – and it’s time to move on.
There are many types of dementia – and our recent case study highlights a newly described subtype.
Appetite is governed by gut hormones, not willpower. GLP-1 therapies extend natural satiety signals and expose the biology behind eating.
Sweat cools you down. Bacteria make you smell.
Research gaps in biomechanics and foetal movement may be holding back improvements in maternity safety.
Recovery and diet content appear side by side in social media feeds, shaping what vulnerable users see.
Genetics shape when we function best. Aligning routines with biology beats forcing a one size fits all 5am start.
Your phone was built to make you look good, not to support diagnosis, yet its images are now influencing your medical care.
The mental health disorders TikTok loves, and those it hates.
Alice Kinsella’s post-maternity leave comeback could help pave the way for other gymnasts.
Assisted births are common, but many first-time mothers say they lack information before labour and struggle to make decisions in the moment.
Illegal skin-lightening creams containing mercury and steroids are appearing on British high streets. Here’s what’s in them and why they’re dangerous.
A nasal spray vaccine that puts your immune system on permanent high alert – and could one day protect against flu, COVID and future pandemics.