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Incoming: we can tell a lot about weather patterns from what happened before

What's the science behind the weather forecast?

Podcast • 23 Jul

"2020 has undoubtedly been challenging for those with health anxiety"

Do you suffer from health anxiety?

Health • 07 Jul

"Childhood leukaemia represents the most common cancer in children". Photo: Getty Images

Why do children get leukaemia?

Health • 26 Jun

Opening windows more often and for longer can reduce the number of airborne particles we are likely to breathe in

Open the windows! A guide to airing your house and Covid-19

House and Home • 25 Jun

"Even new furniture and the very insulation we wrap our houses with can contain indoor air pollutants"

Is your home making you sick?

Health • 09 Jun

Researchers at the Pitie Salpetriere hospital in Paris, France using the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) platform to detch variations in the brain's magnetic field during various types of activity. Photo: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can technology find an effective cure for dementia?

Dementia • 05 May

Health department staff in Louisiana, where 70% of coronoavirus deaths have been among African Americans, at the New Orleans Convention Center. Photo: Claire Bangser / AFP via Getty Images

How Covid-19 has highlighted African-American health problems

Health • 27 Apr

"The study showed how individuals with a long term illness can find coping mechanisms and ways that work to adapt to their situation"

Coping with the crisis: lessons from those with long-term illness

Coronavirus • 24 Apr

"The increased risk due to remote working is that employees may be using non-standard email or messaging systems which fail to properly filter out emails which carry threats"

The risks of working from home during the coronavirus

technology • 17 Apr

"Exercise is also a promising treatment for cognitive difficulty, as exercise pumps oxygen to the brain which stimulates the growth of new neural connections."

Why exercise is good for stroke patients

Health • 07 Apr

"You will get through this. Remember: optimism is contagious!" Photo: Getty Images

Is it possible to be an optimist in the middle of a pandemic?

Coronavirus • 01 Apr

Paris Fitzpatrick as Romeo and Cordelia Braithwaite as Juliet in Matthew Bourne's Romeo And Juliet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London in 2019. Photo: Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images

How literature has dealt with pandemics and plagues

Culture • 20 Mar

Just 91 of 1,149 members of the general public observed for a research project washed their hands adequately

How poor hand-washing increases the spread of coronavirus

Coronavirus • 02 Mar

"Due to the higher number of medications prescribed to manage chronic diseases, inappropriate prescribing is very common among older people"

Why inappropriate prescribing may be bad for your health

Health • 25 Feb

"Avoid doing work in bed, or things that are not associated with enjoyment and relaxation"

5 simple ways to improve your sleep

Sleep • 24 Feb

"Cataract and vision correction procedures are now the most performed health improvement surgery in many countries"

Why you should check your DNA when thinking about eye surgery

Health • 20 Feb

"The rewiring of the brain also explain the tendency of teenagers to make irrational, impulsive decisions"

The science of teenagers

Health • 17 Feb

Pharmaceuticals we are releasing into the environment affect the way microorganisms, plants and animals interact with each other in our waterways.

The drugs which end up in our sewers, drains and rivers

Environment • 10 Feb

"The benefits of early intervention in dementia are clear, and mean that patients can access treatments, advice and support to plan ahead." Photo: Getty Images

Dealing with the fear factor around dementia

Health • 05 Feb

Part of the SolaFin2Go project installation in Jamataka in Botswana

Shedding climate-friendly light on energy services in Africa

Energy • 03 Feb

"Whatever the weather, remember that men and women experience temperature differently in the same space the next time you get into a battle of the thermostat in the office."

Why do women feel the cold more than men?

Buildings • 10 Feb

"It is the separation within education that most obviously defines the demarcation lines of community division in Northern Ireland"

'Are you a Fenian, Miss?: inside the sectarian classroom

Education • 28 Jan

$"The aim of these "sport-plus" programmes is to offer sporting experiences to prisoners to impact their mental health". Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov\ TASS via Getty Images$

How to use sport to improve prisoners' mental health

Mental Health • 27 Jan

"Current evidence clearly highlights the risks and negative implications of using physical activity as a deterrent, or punishment to food choices"

Why linking food choices with physical activity isn't a good idea

Health • 24 Jan

Lord Mayor Of Cork Terence MacSwiney who died on hunger strike in 1920

The links between the 1920 Cork hunger strikes and China

History • 23 Jan

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