Clare Wilson

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Clare Wilson

Most of us are familiar with the most obvious impacts of coffee, both good and bad. It can make us more mentally alert – which is great if we need waking up – but it can also make it harder to get to sleep if we drink it too close to bed time. This is because caffeine, the ingredient responsible, happens to blocks the effects of a molecule called adenosine, which is involved in nerve cell signalling all over the body.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Clare Wilson

This is Everyday Science with Clare Wilson, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week, you can sign up here. Hello, and welcome back to Everyday Science. I have a confession to make. When it comes to zoos, I am a hypocrite. As a new parent, I vowed never to take my children to a zoo. No matter how leafy and spacious the enclosures, I always feel sorry for the animals inside, deprived of their liberty.

1 week ago | msn.com | Clare Wilson

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1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Clare Wilson

Dementia is the biggest cause of death in the UK. For those affected and their families, it can be frustrating that current treatments can only slightly ease the symptoms of memory loss and confusion. There has been some disappointment that the NHS will not offer patients two new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. The drugs had already been rejected in preliminary guidance from Nice, the body that makes NHS funding decisions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Clare Wilson

It is said that if cigarettes were invented today, they would never be allowed to go on sale. They are the only consumer product that kills their purchasers when used as intended – causing an early deathin half of all lifelong smokers. And of the estimated 8 million premature deaths a year caused by tobacco, over a million of those are among non-smokers, from breathing in other people’s second-hand smoke.