Food labelling is out of step with healthy diet recommendations and could be improved by including nutrient release rates, according to University of Queensland Emeritus Professor Mike Gidley. The ...

Chronic inflammation that comes with ageing might be due to industrialisation Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to international ...

AI chatbots could spread ‘fake news’ with serious health consequences Trust your doctor, not a chatbot. That’s the stark lesson from a world-first study published today that demonstrates why we ...

" This paper is a thorough review of Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Māui, the term applied to the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand including the extensive under water plateaus. "Zealandia’s history, recorded in ...

Not one, but four – global study reveals the hidden species diversity of bluebottles Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – ...

In people with psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety, mood, personality disorders, cannabis use before being admitted to hospital was more likely to lead them to also needing to be admitted to ...

Dino-slow? Dinosaurs may not have run as fast as we thought For decades, palaeontologists have used fossil trackways to estimate the speeds of dinosaurs. But now, UK scientists have tested this idea ...

Period tracker app users trade privacy for tech Popular apps used to track menstrual cycles and related 'symptoms' can hold years of data on users' health and private lives, which might be usable by ...

A new drug - called amycretin - has shown it can help reduce body weight in two early-phase clinical trials, according to a study funded by the manufacturer Novo Nordisk. The drug, which targets both ...

Sleeping more than 9.9 hours a night in the first two weeks after a concussion was linked to having more overall concussion symptoms up to four weeks after the injury, according to Canadian research.

New bat viruses, including two that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, have been discovered among bats in orchards in China's southwest. The 20 new viruses, along with new ...

Incorporating physical health considerations into mental health strategies could save millions Reducing the number of physical health issues associated with mental health conditions, such as alcohol ...