All news by author: Jim Leffman

The Pine Island and Thwaites ice shelves are among the fastest-changing in Antarctica and are of particular interest due to their vulnerability to warming ocean waters

Researchers found that children aged between two and five who were born within three quarters of a mile from green spaces were less likely to suffer from anxiety

The study found that eating herring and sardines instead of red meat could save up to 750,000 lives a year and reduce the prevalence of disability due to diseases like diabetes

Stress brought on by being subjected to the racial abuse could be behind the findings, according to a new study. It used 17 years of data from 255 black Americans

Scientists have discovered that an intense workout increases levels of a hormone in their milk that protects babies against diabetes and regulates their metabolism

The link between regular exercise and better brain health follows research from Pacific Neuroscience Institute's Brain Health Center published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

If you're in the habit of always adding a pinch of extra salt to your food, you could be putting yourself at risk of developing a "silent killer" currently affecting over four million Brits

Researchers at National Universty of Singapore say that drinking coffee and tea at midlife may be associated with a reduced likelihood of physical frailty in late life

Valeriu Cobzarencu, Andrei Stefan, Vincentiu Gheorghe, Ionut-Razvan Gheorghe and Alin Chica worked together to raid supermarkets in Essex, London, Kent and Norfolk

The world-leading research team at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, operated on both women entirely by means of robot-assisted keyhole surgery with no open-surgery stage