Nearly 20% of people suffer from insomnia, and yet the drugs to treat it are often not effective. Yexuan Zhu discusses new research on the the best treatments for insomnia and future approaches to helping people sleep better.
Chronic pain diseases continue to cause distress worldwide and are now the leading cause of disability. Benjamin Fisher discusses why we can experience chronic pain, how it is researched and new findings that provide a source of hope for chronic pain sufferers.
In the last 50 years, our eating habits have changed from 3 meals a day to almost constant snacking on fast food. Sophie Beaumont explores how the food industry is pushing our new diets, and whether junk food can be considered ‘food’ at all.
No Mow May is a campaign by UK charities to reintroduce wildlife into our gardens. Natalie Stevenson discusses why biodiversity is so important, and the impact the campaign is having.
Natalie Stevenson discusses the problems air pollution can cause for our health and the environment, and the measures needed to tackle the rising levels.
Our perception of dinosaurs is changing. Peyton Cherry discusses how recent scientific evidence is helping us to reimaging what our favourite dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
Rakhshan Kamran discusses how patient-reported outcome measures should be applied in gender-affirming care and other healthcare settings.
New research shows that more than 2 million people in the UK are now suffering from long COVID. Megan Perry discusses what might be causing the condition and how scientists are trying to cure it.
New research has found a novel population of T-cells that may be more successful than current immunotherapy treatments at targeting cancer cells. James O’Brien discusses.
By Joel Tester The title of Earth’s largest living organism may bring to mind classic examples like giant sequoias or blue whales. Yet, in a recently published paper, researchers at the University of Western Australia revealed an unexpected new winner of this accolade. The scientists studied a 180 km2 meadow of the seagrass Posidonia australis…
