Millions more children in West and Central Africa suffering from malnutrition, according to study

The roots of plants can do a lot of things: They grow in length to reach water, they can bend to circumvent stones, and they form fine root hairs enabling them to absorb more nutrients from the soil.

Many males think talking about body dissatisfaction is socially undesirable and associate it with a sense of shame, a University of Queensland study has found. UQ School of Psychology PhD candidate Beth O'Gorman said the findings highlight the importance of normalising men's discussions about the issue.

A low cost and widely available drug could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury patients by as much as 20 per cent depending on the severity of injury, according to a major study carried out in collaboration with the University of Birmingham.

10/17/2019 - Around 20 percent of the world's agricultural areas yields less than it did 20 years ago.

Extremely premature babies born in English hospitals with specialist neonatal intensive care units may have a reduced risk of brain damage and death. This is the finding of research, by a team from Imperial College London and the University of Turku , Finland, that involved 17,000 infants born in England earlier than 28 weeks gestation.

Working with clinicians from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, a team of EPFL researchers has developed a conformable electrode implant that will allow people with a dysfunctional inner ear to hear again.