All news by author: Jim Leffman

The new bird that lived around 120 million years ago was the first to evolve without teeth and has been named Imparavis attenboroughi in honour of Sir David Attenborough

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

The new study, published in the journal Neuron, claims that the first noticeable sign of Parkinson's is a dysfunction in the dopaminergic neuron synapse

A major scientific breakthrough has been made in California, as scientists have created a talking avatar to simulate the speech of a paralysed woman - complete with facial expressions and her own voice.

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