Climate change makes brain conditions like migraine or psychiatric disorders like anxiety worse, a review has shown. Why is this?
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The erosion of peat unearthed an ancient find in Dartmoor - what archaeologists think could be a burial cist from the Bronze Age. Find out why they are so excited about it.
Could blueberry wine be the healthiest of all the wines? This may be unknown, but new research shows whether the healthiness of blueberries is preserved in blueberry wine or not.
The James Webb Telescope at NASA reveals signs of atmosphere on Super-Earth, but is it the habitable kind?
Mad Cow Disease (or BST as it is known) has just been identified at a Scottish farm in Ayrshire. We explain what the disease is and its types, as only one type is considered potentially harmful to humans.
University of Plymouth researchers plant oak to upland areas to see how harmful flooding of soils is to tree health. What does this mean for UK climate change mitigation?
Frogs and toads have long lifespans but are in decline in the UK. Creating ponds, even small simple ones can help. Here's an easy method to follow.
There is a perception (perhaps popularised by the PaleoDiet) that before agriculture, humans relied predominantly on meat, but an international team show plants were very important to some hunter-gatherers.
Engineers in the USA used origami to make a soft robot "caterpillar". Through new innovations, will soft start to trump the rigid robots of the future?
London needs to brace for a "new reality" of more extreme heat and higher temperatures, experts say. What to expect and what can be done?
In a new book, psychologists challenge misconceptions that remembering things all the time, like where keys are is not that easy in the brain. Still, recall can be increased with some exercises. Find out about them here!
In a long term field study in the Yukon of Canada, researchers have found that the lifespans of red squirrels are heavily affected by early life adversity, which has an unexpected lesson for human resilience.
The virus called “cacao swollen shoot virus disease” threatens the cacao tree and its seeds in West Africa. Can anything be done about it?
Researchers from the Dragoi Lab have collaborated and used wireless tech to monitor the behaviour of macaques free to roam in natural settings, to understand foraging in not only animals, but humans.
A study by researchers at University of Virginia have uncovered some intriguing workings of the brain in autism that could help to more accurately recognise autism.
From fine goods to stacked pots and pet dogs, Bronze Age people who lived in sophisticated stilted structures over marshland in East Anglia lived more sophisticated lives than expected.
Scientists have used data from "sea robots" to identify the sheer amount of plastic pollution that is on the ocean floor, estimating major amounts in the deep ocean depths.
A professor of Economic History says that “the story we tell ourselves about the history of Britain needs to be rewritten” as thorough data reveals industrialisation happened a century earlier than thought.
Skeletal remains have harboured a hidden treasure: a full genomic sequence of harmful oral bacteria that causes tooth decay. What can we learn from the past?
Snowpack provides more than just a platform for snow sports, it is the source of a crucial water supply from mountains. Researchers show how much before introducing a new metric.