Laura Simmons

Clever microscopy techniques allowed scientists to watch a seizure spread through the brain in real time.

Everybody’s talking about peptides. At least, in certain corners of social media they are. You may be bombarded with posts about them, or you may have no i

“In terms of infectious diseases that we have eliminated from the US through widespread vaccination, measles is at the greatest risk of re-emergence,” Dr Nathan Lo told IFLScience.

Soft tissue fossils are rare enough as it is – preserved brains were an archaeological mystery. Until now.

Dormant viruses don’t usually cause symptoms, but a large study suggests reactivation could cause more of a problem for people infected with COVID than scientists believed.

Only six years ago, the virus was infecting tens of thousands of people per day. The situation now is very different, but the virus hasn't entirely gone away.

The recommendations once again reawaken debates over splitting the MMR shot and the removal of aluminum adjuvants, both of which have been repeatedly debunked by scientists.

The “first night effect” is a well-documented scientific phenomenon.

Recent trials of two GLP-1s, semaglutide and liraglutide, reported very different results in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

If you have read or watched Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, then you might remember when Alice first falls down the rabbit hole. She find