Picking your nose increases the risk of dementia.
Scientists have found that the bad habit is "a significant risk factor" for the brain disease as germs are transferred from the fingers ...
Donald Trump has promised to release UFO footage should he win the US presidential election.
The politician discussed the ongoing obsession with the extraterrestrial in a new interview with podcaster Lex ...
Homework is set to be banned in California.
The Healthy Homework Act has passed both chambers of state legislature and will ask teachers to consider whether any homework tasks they give ...
Mental toughness could be the key to a longer life.
Scientists have found that people who remain stoic during difficult times are at significantly less risk of an early death.
Boffins at ...
Gifted dogs can remember the names of their favourite toys.
Almost all pooches are capable of learning words such as "sit" and "down" but a small group of "gifted word-learner" dogs ...
Mobile phone usage does not raise the risk of brain cancer.
A review ordered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) analysed 63 studies on the issue carried out between 1994 and ...
A massive asteroid 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs once slammed into Jupiter.
Scientists have found evidence that the gargantuan meteorite crashed into the gas giant's ...
Four in 10 people don't like saying sorry as they are 'never' wrong.
A poll of 1,000 adults aged between 20 and 50 found that almost a fifth (18 per cent) ...
An invisible electric field that surrounds Earth has been discovered by NASA.
The US space agency has found the first evidence of the subtle "ambipolar electric field" that could be responsible ...
Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy can slow biological ageing.
Evidence presented at the world's largest cardiology conference showed that the jabs have "far-reaching benefits beyond what we initially imagined".
Doctors ...
Drinking one pint of beer a day increases a person's risk of gout.
A new study has found that the alcoholic beverage raises the danger of the disease - which was ...
Eating croissants regularly "silently" increases the risk of heart problems even if it does not lead to weight gain.
A group of volunteers ate a diet high in saturated fat for ...
Trying to remember something can prevent the memory from being retrieved.
A Cambridge scientist suggests that people desperately trying to recall something are better off letting their mind focus elsewhere or ...
Space cities could be constructed on the Moon.
Experts in South Korea are convinced that bricks moulded from microwaved stardust could produce materials on site and boost humanity's hopes of living ...
Loch Ness is full of "mini-monsters".
Experts at the University of Aberdeen dropped a holographic camera into the loch as part of a landmark study attempting to uncover evidence of the ...
Dogs are able to understand human words.
Scientists conducted an investigation after a series of videos on social media claiming to show pooches "talking" with the aid of soundboard buttons.
The US ...
Lie-ins at the weekend can prevent heart disease.
A study of 90,000 adults in Britain found those who caught up on their sleep on Saturday and Sunday mornings were at "significantly" ...
Monkeys call each other by specific names.
Researchers have found that marmosets use distinct calls, known as phee-calls, to name each other in a skill that was previously thought to be ...
Sunflowers 'dance' together to share sunlight.
Experts have found that the plants that grow close together, casting a shadow over their neighbours, have found a way to resolve the problem through ...
Cannabis smokers are three times as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke.
Experts in France tracked over 1,300 patients in intensive care across the country and found those who ...
A neurosurgeon has been sacked and is facing a criminal probe after allowing her teenage daughter to drill a hole in a patient's skull.
The unnamed medic is said to have ...
Teenagers in Hong Kong have been told to play badminton to curb their sexual urges.
Guidance published by Hong Kong's education authorities advises teenage boys and girls to "master their sexual ...
Robots could be doing human chores in the next five years.
Experts claim that the bots could become a fixture in the home and part of daily life as the public ...
Teenage relationships are the most intense of our lives.
An Oxford psychologist argues that people shouldn't be "flippant" about teenage crushes and the impact of heartbreak during adolescence needs to be ...
