A 20-year study found a brain game that boosts speed and splits attention helped prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Intermittent fasting does not appear to be an effective approach for weight loss, according to a new Cochrane review.

Five years ago, our AlphaFold AI system solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction. But that's not ...

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

Does your teenager roll their eyes when you give advice or warn them? With a few adjustments, parents can get teens to open up and think through their decisions.

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

Physical AI refers to intelligent systems that can sense, reason, and act inside the physical world. These systems do not remain limited to screens, servers, or digital spaces. Instead, they operate ...

Half of UK adults take a multivitamin regularly. However, over the past decade, research has suggested that taking them might not be as beneficial as we think.

Weightlifter Joseph Black was still legally a child when videos on social media introduced him to a dangerous shortcut to a ...

Generative AI has created a problem that goes far deeper than cheating. When a tool like ChatGPT can write a coherent essay, solve a multi-step math problem, analyze a historical event, and produce a ...

A small-town Kansas mayor is in trouble for voting illegally as a noncitizen—but he has the support of his town. Joe Ceballos was recently reelected mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, by a comfortable 101-20 ...

International energy analysis suggests that AI could also help cut emissions by detecting methane leaks in oil and gas systems, optimising power plants, augmenting time-poor medical specialists, ...