Five life lessons from your immune system

Jan 07, 2019 12:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

This article is part of our occasional long read series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity. Scientists love analogies. We use them...

Keeping fit: how to do the right exercise for your age

Jan 04, 2019 16:05 pm UTC| Health

The effect of exercise on health is profound. It can protect you from a range of conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. But the type and amount of exercise you should do changes as you age....

Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you

Jan 04, 2019 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Few people are familiar with the term step therapy, but most Americans have health insurance policies that adopt it. Step therapy programs, also known as fail first policies, require patients to try less expensive...

Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test

Jan 04, 2019 16:04 pm UTC| Technology Health

Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition...

Gym membership: how to get the most out of it, according to a sports scientist

Jan 04, 2019 16:02 pm UTC| Health

CrossFit, circuit training, group exercise, functional training, resistance training, cardio training. Feeling dizzy yet? Never before have there been so many structured activities at the gym vying for your...

Is your 'experience diet' making you unwell?

Jan 04, 2019 16:01 pm UTC| Health

Just as our food diet affects our physical and emotional health, so does our experience diet. This is the day-to-day mix of the things we do, see, hear and feel. And, just like our food diet, the quantity, quality and...

A neuroscientist's tips for a new year tuneup for your brain

Dec 31, 2018 12:16 pm UTC| Science Health

Unlike the effervescent bubbles that stream to the top of champagne flutes on New Years Eve, what I call brain bubbles are far from celebratory. These bubbles are metaphorical rather than physical, and they distort the...