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Being tired is a feeling we often experience. When we do certain activities – physical or mental – over a period of time, or even after experiencing intense emotional states, we feel tired, perhaps even exhausted.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet: The nerve cells that mediate the feeling of hunger receive stronger signals, so that the mice eat significantly more after the diet and…

It's taking people on average 76 seconds to spot all six eggs, can you do it faster?

Exclusive: ‘I feel like someone is holding a gun to my child’s head and I don’t when they will pull the trigger,’ father says

A new optical illusion is challenging people to find a hidden lamp in an image that has stumped thousands. Those who manage to spot the object within seven seconds can be classed as 'geniuses'

The immersive experience takes you from cardiac arrest through brain death and beyond

An expert says symptoms can include brain fog and itchy ears

New findings could help to deliver new treatments which will give cancer patients more time with loved ones

"Patient survival is directly related to how well and how successful they respond to therapy,"