Overwhelming, distressing, all-consuming: this little-known form of romantic longing can have a devastating impact.
Our social goals change in surprising ways over our lifespan – and understanding this can help us build fulfilling connections with others, research suggests.
Friendships are a core part of who we are – so what happens to us when they end?
A few simple steps to improve your relationships can help make sure you are the kind of friend you would wish to have yourself.
Michael Norton has spent decades studying why human relationships last. Sharing rituals – from a clink of a glass to Christmas Day traditions – have a powerful positive effect.
Friendships can bring some surprising benefits to our health. Here's how you can make new friends and strengthen the ones you've got already.
People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is revealing clues to our evolutionary past – and what makes us human.
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A new organ-on-a-chip technology helps doctors design personalised treatments for gut health.
Electrolyte-packed drinks are said to optimise health and hydration. But do we really need them?
Tech Now meets medical teams using mixed reality environments to rehearse life-or-death operations.
As a self-confessed coffee addict, Melissa Hogenboom examines the science behind matcha tea's health benefits.
A team of researchers is working on an ambitious project to build the world’s largest biological database.
Research shows the activity of 'retro-walking' can have surprising benefits for your physical health and brain.
The growing longevity industry is selling a big aspiration – the ability to slow your biological clock, but how credible is this?
From helping you to focus more to improving sports performance, some scientists believe 'depositing' sleep for later use can bring a range of benefits.
Some common ingredients can have powerfully positive effects on our health. Here are seven worth adding more of to your diet.
AI can write you love poems and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But can a machine ever love you back?
Would you be a different person if you had grown up somewhere else? A growing body of research is helping to answer this age-old nature versus nurture question.
A warming climate and the use of artificial snow is making it more dangerous and difficult to compete at the Winter Olympics.
More than a billion people worldwide struggle to find relief from the unbearable pain of migraines. But new therapies like botox and nose vibrations may finally help patients find relief.
A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.
Our understanding of migraine is starting to shift, overturning ideas of what's a symptom and what's a trigger, and which part of the brain is key for developing effective treatments.
These mysterious mushrooms, only recently described by science, are found in different parts of the world, but give people the same "lilliputian hallucinations".
Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains.
Why sports stars who head the ball are much more likely to die of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease.
Your body has plenty of ways to cleanse itself. Here's how to help it along.
