One in ten people in the UK have a needle phobia so serious it means they frequently miss out on vital treatments such as ...

A Sheffield woman is thought to be the first "woman of colour" to row solo across any ocean after completing a 3,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic. Ananya Prasad, 34, who was born in India, started ...

Tracey Rice, a University of Chichester staff member, tackles her fear of open water on Channel 4’s Fear Clinic. Watch her ...

Tracey's phobia, which began at the age of 17 ... Sufferers are fearful of the ocean and large bodies of water. The mother says she used to watch on as husband Jon splashed around the water ...

Now, the Paisley-based clerical assistant can swim in the ocean, take her two-year-old son ... things over the years to try to shake off the phobia by myself – from watching fish in a tank ...

Combining those methods might highlight whether these mantle “blobs” are from primordial origins, from recycled ocean crust, or from something else entirely. If scientists confirm that more zones like ...

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The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean ...

Dragana Gordic - stock.adobe.com A British mother says her extreme phobia of vomit has left her suicidal — and unable to leave the house. Alex Sim-Wise, 43, says the crippling fear, known as ...

I worry I’m on the road to isolation or hermetism. What should I do about this phone phobia? Do you remember the days before texting, when everybody would just sit on public transport blaring ...

A college is helping students tackle their fear of making or taking telephone calls. Nottingham College is running coaching sessions on phone confidence and etiquette to support them in overcoming ...