If you can’t wait 24 hours to get your hands on a book, DVD, or video game without breaking out into a cold sweat, get excited (and maybe look into moving). Same day Amazon deliveries just moved a step closer with the news that the company will be testing drones in Cambridge ASAP. Last year,…

Neuroscientists have found that exposing people to a strong (disgusting) smell while they sleep could be a simple way to help them quit smoking. Researchers from the New Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel tested this on 66 smokers who wanted to stop but weren’t using any smoking cessation techniques. One group of participants slept…

A new survey from digital safety non-profit the Family Online Safety Institute has found that parents are more concerned about their children’s social media use than any other online activity. (Has no one told them about p-o-r-n? Or the dark web? Or Reddit?) Anyway, as The Guardian reports, the US-based organisation found that only 26%…

Given the popularity of human health-tracking devices, it was only a matter of time before our pets got in on the action, too. There are already activity monitors for dogs, but being sedentary (and often rejecting collars entirely) that's not the best option for our feline friends. Enter Tailio, a new WiFi enabled device (with…

Most of us were warned growing up that watching too much TV could ruin our eyes, but now it turns out that how we watch TV can be used to gauge whether we have an eye disease. Yep, British researchers discovered that they could spot glaucoma, the leading cause of blindness, by monitoring where people’s…

If you’ve ever heard good news and felt yourself start to well up, researchers now know why that is. (If that’s never happened to you, congratulations, you’re incredibly emotionally stable. Or a robot.) Psychologist Oriana Aragon and her colleagues at Yale University ran a study to find out why seemingly positive events make us react…

Researchers say they’ve identified the first stages of how pancreatic cancer starts. This could be a lifesaving discovery given that the cancer is usually not discovered until it’s very advanced, meaning it has one of the lowest survival rates, with only 3% of people living for five years after diagnosis. (In the UK, it affects…

Scientists have found that having a sense of purpose could help you live longer. Researchers from UCL, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University studied 9,050 English people with an average age of 65, surveying them about their physical and mental health and wellbeing. They adjusted the results for age, sex, socio-economic status, physical health, depression,…

For the first time, scientists have created a human stem cell model of Parkinson’s disease in a petri dish. Working at the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute, they took skin samples from a pair of identical twins, one of whom has Parkinson’s. They were then able to turn these into stem cells…