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In the thin air above 3000m, climbers battle fatigue, cold and altitude sickness, but what if the damage outlasts the expedition? A team at the University of Edinburgh has shown that even a brief ...

Did you know 80 per cent of the body’s immune system lives in the gut? How to optimise yours and avoid winter bugs.

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The human body hates not getting enough oxygen. Without it, confusion takes over, breathing and heart rate change, and skin turns blue. It turns out that the immune system feels the effects of not ...

A presentation by scientists on a work group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel ...

Daniel Davis is speaking at New Scientist Live in London this weekend along with many more of the world's biggest thinkers. Book your tickets here. You have probably heard that loading up on vitamin C ...

When two of the most powerful people in the world enthusiastically discuss how science is on the verge of finding the secret ...

Another case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in Florida. Here's how to protect ...