Tiny robots could be used to treat bleeds on the brain.
Scientists say that the technology could "open new frontiers in medicine" by injecting the bots into patients' bodies.
Lab tests carried ...
Owning a dog doesn't make a person happy.
Researchers were staggered to find that people who have pooches reported higher levels of depression and anxiety, contradicting the idea that pets are ...
Eating fish during pregnancy can reduce a child's risk of autism by 20 per cent.
The team suggested that eating seafood while expecting is beneficial for the child as it contains ...
Wearing glasses can ward off dementia.
Experts at Johns Hopkins University in the US have estimated that unfixed vision problems play a role in 19 per cent of cases of the ...
Watching television or gaming before bed makes little difference to a child's sleep.
Experts have long feared that screen time in the evening can harm a youngster's quality of rest but ...
Cats enjoy playing fetch.
A survey of 8,000 cat owners shows that over 40 per cent of felines choose to retrieve toys and objects thrown by their owners, a figure that ...
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 ...
