Mosaic

We can harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs.

Craig Venter, multi-millionaire maverick, says he can help you live a better, longer life. Roger Highfield asks how.

Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work.

Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine […]

There are a few things science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for, how it works and how best to treat it.

We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?

The idea of training rural medical practitioners ignites acrimonious debate in India. On one side are the Indian doctors, and more importantly the associations that represent them, such as the […]

If we met new life – on this planet or the next – would we know it when we saw it?

In times of economic trouble, governments can choose to cut public services to save money. But at what cost?