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Acid produced by the brain could drive disease-rel...
Kynurenic acid is made in the brain and could play a role in psychosis related to schizophrenia, Alz...
Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providi...
Doctors are starting to see chronic pain as a condition in its own right, which is leading to new an...
We are only just beginning to understand what caus...
This new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawto...
New ways to measure pain can help us communicate h...
Advances in neuroimaging, AI and wearable tech are helping to overcome the problems we face in havin...
The new pain treatments that may finally stem the ...
Why talk and behaviour-based interventions that don’t use any drugs, as well as genetic therapy and ...
Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it mea...
A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root caus...
What is pain, how does it work and what happens wh...
With a growing number of people living with pain, we desperately need to understand it – but we are ...
Landslides can be triggered by small changes in at...
We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmosp...
NASA’s enormous SLS rocket has launched to space f...
The powerful Space Launch System rocket has finally launched. It took off from Cape Canaveral this m...
A stack of Apple laptops could work as a powerful ...
Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that...
Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats fro...
The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous ...
Pre-eclampsia may raise a fetus's risk of heart di...
Children and teenagers who were exposed to pre-eclampsia in the uterus may be more likely to have a ...
Leprosy bacteria may hold the key to helping the l...
The bacteria that cause leprosy have been found to reprogram liver cells in armadillos and make the ...
How will AIs that generate videos from text transf...
Artificial intelligences that turn text into video are making rapid progress, but are we ready for a...
We now know why some poos float and others sink
Experiments with mouse and human faeces have provided the most definitive proof yet that gas-produci...
How to tell the difference between a regular black...
Physicists have worked out how to see whether a black hole is actually a wormhole that could theoret...
Climate negotiations are in disarray as COP27 ente...
Talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, are running well behind schedule, with discussions on key areas suc...
Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond compu...
The mathematician shares his latest theories on quantum consciousness, the structure of the universe...
