Health

Would you be a different person if you had grown up somewhere else? A growing body of research is helping to answer this age-old nature versus nurture question.

A warming climate and the use of artificial snow is making it more dangerous and difficult to compete at the Winter Olympics.

More than a billion people worldwide struggle to find relief from the unbearable pain of migraines. But new therapies like botox and nose vibrations may finally help patients find relief.

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.

Our understanding of migraine is starting to shift, overturning ideas of what's a symptom and what's a trigger, and which part of the brain is key for developing effective treatments.

These mysterious mushrooms, only recently described by science, are found in different parts of the world, but give people the same "lilliputian hallucinations".

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains.