The Human Body

Short periods of sleep might enhance aspects of memory and thinking © Getty Images

Short periods of sleep might enhance aspects of memory and thinking

How long does meat sit in your gut? © Getty Images

What would happen if a person just ate meat and nothing else?

How the happiest people on the planet keep smiling © Getty Images

Why do we smile?

Eat to treat: using diet to treat diabetes

Eat to treat: using diet to treat diabetes

Medicine gets personal © Tang Yau Hoong

Why personalised medicine is coming, and how it’s going to help us beat disease

What's in the British gut? © Getty Images

The British microbiome: how our guts can tell us more than our genes

Why do we hate the sound of our own voices? © Getty Images

Why do we hate the sound of our own voices?

Recreating the Neanderthal mind © Magic Torch

Recreating the Neanderthal brain

Why is yawning contagious? © Getty Images

7 causes of fatigue and how you can beat them

How to beat the burnout

How to beat the burnout

Is fasting good for you? © Getty Images

Is fasting good for you?

Bone (yellow), cartilage (blue) and marrow (red) are all present in a single stem cell derived from a human skeleton © Chan and Longaker et al

Newly identified stem cells could regrow bones

Robin Ince

Inside the mind of a comedian – Robin Ince

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya crosses the finishing line to win the Berlin Marathon 2018 in a new world record time of 2:01:40 hours (later officially annouced by organisers to be 2:01:39) on September 16, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Potential endurance running gene discovered