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Angharad Brewer Gillham
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Neuroscience
07 Oct 2025
Instructions help you remember something better than emotions or a good night’s sleep
Scientists find that words you’ve been told to recall are better remembered than words with negative emotional connotations — but surprisingly, sleeping doesn’t help.
Health
26 Sep 2025
Protecting the protectors: as measles cases surge, how can we help healthcare workers get vaccinated?
Measles infections are on the rise, due partly to falling vaccination rates — and because of their work, healthcare workers and those around them are particularly vulnerable. In a new Frontiers in Public Health article, Nikki Heinze and her colleagues talk to healthcare workers in a London hospital to understand the factors that encourage or discourage measles vaccination. In this editorial, Heinze explores those factors, and calls for action to improve immunity screening, raise awareness, and support healthcare workers who want to be vaccinated.
Health
17 Sep 2025
People on Ozempic who eat to regulate emotions less likely to lose weight
Scientists studying people taking GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic found that those who experienced emotional eating were less likely to lose clinically significant weight.
Featured news
03 Sep 2025
Happy music could help you recover from motion sickness
Listening to joyful music helped study participants with motion sickness recover better than other participants — while sad music helped less than doing nothing.
Featured news
22 Aug 2025
Wildfires can raise local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires
Scientists studying the devastating Lāhainā, Maui fires of August 2023 found that deaths were two-thirds higher than expected that month — and 367% higher during the most intense week of the blaze.
Featured news
13 Aug 2025
Now you see me, now you don’t: how subtle ‘sponsored content’ on social media tricks us into viewing ads
Scientists find that people mostly avoid social media ads when they see them, but many ads blend in seamlessly.
Featured news
08 Aug 2025
'One child called the robot "my little brother"': can assistance tech become part of the family?
In a new article published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Dr Zhao Zhao and her colleagues investigate the long-term lifespan of a social robot given to 20 families in 2021 to see whether it could help their children learn to read. Four years after their previous study, the robot was no longer needed for its primary purpose, but that didn’t mean it was no longer wanted. In this guest editorial, Zhao explores the new roles the robot that stayed took on — as keepsake, pet, and companion — and how our relationships to technology can change over time.
Featured news
29 Jul 2025
How much time did our ancestors spend up trees? Studying these chimpanzees might help us find out
A study on savannah-living chimpanzees suggests the need to move safely on thin tree branches could explain why early hominins that could walk upright kept their tree-climbing adaptations.
Featured news
24 Jul 2025
Students more likely to pass oral exams at noon — and that might apply to job interviews, too
Physiological rhythms could explain why Italian university students were more likely to fail exams early or late in the day.
Featured news
17 Jul 2025
Specialty of the house: Neanderthals at two nearby caves butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
Differences in cut-marks left behind by butchery can’t be explained by different resources, tools, or skill levels, indicating cultural practices might be responsible.
Featured news
10 Jul 2025
Chemicals from turmeric and rhubarb could help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria lurking in wastewater
Scientists monitoring wastewater find a range of antibiotic-resistant bacteria — but natural compounds show promise for fighting them off.
Featured news
01 Jul 2025
Cheese may really be giving you nightmares, scientists find
Scientists find lactose intolerance may link consuming dairy, bad dreams, and poor sleep.
Environment
24 Jun 2025
Wildlife forensic scientists develop new tool to detect elephant ivory disguised as legal mammoth ivory
Stable isotope analysis can tell apart ivory from mammoths dug up from the permafrost and modern elephants, closing a loophole for selling elephant ivory
Featured news
17 Jun 2025
Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby
Scientists studying the impact of solar power on local neighborhoods find that most people living close to large-scale solar plants wouldn’t mind if a new plant was built nearby.
Earth science
10 Jun 2025
An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning
Veniaminof, Alaska, has frequent unexpected eruptions — modelling how they happen could help us protect people from unexpected eruptions.