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With advancements in understanding the sciences and the instruments with which we study it, our collective knowledge of what happens inside ourselves is a work in constant progress that involves the most skilled medical practitioners and researchers. They must remain vigilant for any new details in understanding how our bodies work, as well as how our environment interacts with it. Here, Modern Sciences explores the latest developments in the fields of genetics, human biology, epidemiology, and much more.
Comfort them or let them tough it out? How parents shape a child’s pain response
Atlantic Ambience/Pexels Joshua Pate, University of Technology Sydney It happens in slow motion. Your six-year-old daughter is sprinting…
Five ways to improve your health this year that don’t rely on losing weight
PeopleImages/Shutterstock Rachel Woods, University of Lincoln Every January, internet searches for the terms “diet” and “weight loss” surge,…
Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?
Jean-Guillaume Starnini/Pexels Hinze Hogendoorn, Queensland University of Technology How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And…
It’s so hard to resist overspending at Christmas – here’s how to reinforce your willpower
Eterna Images/Shutterstock Samantha Brooks, Liverpool John Moores University We often throw caution to the cold, dark wind of…
What’s the difference between a tumour and cancer?
National Cancer Institute/Unsplash Sarah Sasson, UNSW Sydney and Megan Barnet, Garvan Institute The terms tumour and cancer can…
Kimchi may boost immune function, recent study shows
Eating kimchi daily may help fine-tune the immune system. krein1/ Shutterstock Rachel Woods, University of Lincoln Kimchi has…
Good sleep starts in the gut
Zhur_Sa/Shutterstock Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster You might think good sleep happens in your brain, but restorative sleep…
How multilingualism can protect against brain ageing
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Xinyu Liu, University of Reading and Christos Pliatsikas, University of Reading People are living longer than ever…
What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
shutterstock. Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Shutterstock Aimee Grant, Swansea University; Amy Pearson, Durham University, and Jennifer Leigh, University of Liverpool The…
Five everyday habits that could be harming your pancreas
A few everyday habits play a major role in pancreatic damage. carlesmiro/Shutterstock Dipa Kamdar, Kingston University The pancreas…