Weight training helps protect older people from dementia, according to new research. Volunteers with mild cognitive impairment who practiced strength training showed improvements in memory and brain ...

Monkeys are the world’s best yodellers, according to new research. Rather than Austria or Switzerland, scientists say the champions at the traditional form of singing which involves repeated and rapid ...

London Zoo’s otter pups have decided it’s warm enough to take their first swims. The Asian short-clawed otter pups, born in January to first-time mother Midge, have spent their first few months tucked ...

A schoolgirl left with burns and unable to dress herself after falling into a cooking pot can now put on her school uniform ...

A council has been forced to halt BBQs in a popular park despite soaring temperatures after locals claimed revelers were littering, fighting - and pooing in the bushes. Camden Council said on ...

Food made in space tastes different, according to new research. The traditional Japanese condiment miso had a nuttier flavor when made on board the International Space Station (ISS), say scientists.

Pregnant women should avoid menthol-flavored vapes, warns new research. The chemicals in mentholated e-cigarettes may poses risks to their unborn baby, say American scientists. Vaping during pregnancy ...

Eating only during the daytime could protect night shift workers from the increased risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study. Food timing could be a bigger risk factor than sleep ...

A social media star has helped develop the world's most advanced robotic arm - designed over four years with $2 million in research. Amputee singer and model Tilly Lockey, 19, says she feels like a ...

A vaccine for shingles may lower the risk of dementia, according to new research. A public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a jab can reduce the risk of ...

This is the heartwarming moment a mother met her baby chimp for the first time just 14 hours after she gave birth via a planned C-section. Mahale, 30, celebrated the birth of her fourth offspring on ...