A nine-month-old boy is fighting a rare form of testicular cancer after his parents found a lump in his scrotum. Freddie Burgess-Shardlow has an ectomesenchymoma, a rare and fast-growing tumour of the nervous system or soft tissue. Emma Burgess, 36, said she and partner Katie Woodward, 34, first found a lump in their son’s testicles … Read more
Human brains use dreams to replay recent events and help form memories — and experts have gotten the first glimpse of this process in action, a study has reported. When we sleep, our brains replay the firing patterns our neurons underwent while awake — a process that experts refer to as ‘offline replay’. It is … Read more
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air said it will be resuming flights from London Luton tomorrow. The flights will service airports in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary. The airline is promising low fares to stimulate demand, however, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against all foreign non-essential travel. Passengers won’t be able … Read more
Flamingos form friendships that last for years and also avoid certain individuals they ‘don’t get on with’, study finds Researchers studied flocks of flamingos in the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre They found that the birds consistently spend their time with close ‘friends’ The finds may help to better manage the lives of flamingos living in captivity By … Read more
Flamingos form friendships that last for years and also avoid certain individuals they ‘don’t get on with’, study finds Researchers studied flocks of flamingos in the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre They found that the birds consistently spend their time with close ‘friends’ The finds may help to better manage the lives of flamingos living in captivity By … Read more
Turning sailing into an art form: On board Saga’s Spirit of Discovery ship, which boasts a £1million art collection Saga’s new Spirit of Discovery cruise ship has an incredible 1,200 commissioned pieces of art on board The ship’s onboard library has 3,500 books, as well as comfortable chairs with soft blankets for reading It also has … Read more
Otterly adorable! Orangutans form a ‘very special bond’ with the family who share their enclosure in a Belgian zoo Three orangutans at Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium share their enclosure with otters The two species have a ‘very special bond’ and are often seen playing together Staff decided to run Asian small-clawed otters’ river through the apes’ … Read more
The popular party drug MDMA – or ecstasy – may ‘reopen’ narrow windows in the brain that allows us to re-learn better social behaviors, new research suggests. MDMA has been given breakthrough therapy status by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because it has shown such promise for treating PTSD. Scientists have observed the way … Read more
Teeth act as a ‘faithful archive of life’ by forming layers like tree rings that reveal intimate details of a person’s life such as when they got pregnant, fell ill or were in prison Material called cementum in teeth develops a new microscopic layer every year Lab analysis reveals it changes in shape and structure … Read more
The moon will reach its furthest point away from the Earth in its elliptical orbit this week, in a rare event called a ‘micromoon’. A micromoon is the opposite of the supermoon, when the Moon appears bigger and fuller in the sky than normal due to its proximity to Earth. This New Moon phase will … Read more