Life

Have you committed to a new habit—exercising, let’s say—but keep falling off the wagon? Do you give up when the going gets tough?...

Mas Subramanian accompanies his wife, Rajeevi, to art museums all over the world. But, until fairly recently, he rarely...

Studying gene expression in a cancer patient’s cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer’s origin and...

The longevity benefits of fasting or taking rapamycin are more like a lottery than a sure bet. The interventions...

Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the North Pacific, and such cannibalism may explain why some orcas...

A first-of-its-kind cream that targets the underlying cause of vitiligo will be made available on the National Health Service...

Available for over a yearME – also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – has long been one of medicine’s most perplexing conditions. With no definitive diagnostic test and a legacy of scepticism in parts of the medical community, patients...

I am currently arranging to get a shingles vaccination. I had shingles at university and still bear the scars,...

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Expert birdwatchers have brain differences that may underlie their remarkable ability to identify unfamiliar birds and suggest that birdwatching...