Skills of underwater robots can be improved by studying fish

Scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have been studying a fish sensory organ to understand cues for...

Chronic stress activates behavioural problems

It's clear that chronic stress can impact our behaviour, leading to problems like depression, reduced interest in...

Altered speech may be the first sign of Parkinson's disease

Researchers attempted to identify early symptoms of Parkinson's disease using voice data. In their study, the...

Mid-life obesity linked to risk of physical frailty in older age

Researchers found that carrying far too much weight, including a midriff bulge, from middle age onwards has been...

Study: Poor co-parenting association with depression in dads

According to a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, fathers are more likely to feel depressed when their...

Study reveals potential cause of dementia

According to a new study, some patients with behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), an incurable...

First glimpse of how many suffer from previously unknown illness

Even though the syndrome is a rare condition, it has a significant death rate, with up to 50 per cent of...

New study reveals how cells prevent dangerous extra DNA copies

According to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, a protein that prepares DNA for replication also keeps the...

Traffic pollution affects brain function: Study

According to a new study conducted by experts at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria,...

Study: Genetic diagnosis helps to treat childhood hearing loss

Understanding the many different genetic causes of childhood-onset hearing loss suggests that genomic testing could...

Study: Why dietary nitrate increases muscle force during exercise

According to a study, consuming dietary nitrate, the active molecule in beetroot juice researchers found that...

Researchers reveal head injury linked with doubled mortality rate

According to new research, adults who suffered any type of head injury during a 30-year study period had twice the...