Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology – in health and disease.

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

Your diaphragm contracts rhythmically and involuntarily (such as during sleep) due to signals from your brain. You can also voluntarily contract ... can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's ...

When you first enter a new world, you can either spawn near a structure or find one while exploring any of the three dimensions. While finding some can be quite easy, others are extremely hard to ...

To investigate how people build sentence structure in Dutch, the researchers measured the brain activity of 24 participants who listened to Dutch audiobook stories in a magnetoencephalography (MEG ...

Reading originates from better brain structure and size, but it's not a setback for non-readers, as brain performance can be improved. Leisure time nowadays includes scrolling on social media ...

Published in the journal Brain Research ... rodents who completed a structured aerobic exercise programme experienced: Dr Augusto Coppi, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University ...