A very personal perspective on Dengue fever
20 January 2015Leah Katzelnick was all set for a career as an anthropologist until she contracted dengue fever. She was in hospital for a week with severe...
“You need to ignore it, babe”: how mothers prepare young children for the reality of racism
19 January 2015Research among mothers with young children living in multicultural London shows that racism is a reality for children as young as five – and that...
Women waging peace
16 January 2015Thousands of Jewish- and Palestinian-Israeli women have joined a movement that is spreading across Israel in opposition to repeated cycles of violence in Gaza. Yet...
Stirbitch: mapping the unmappable
16 January 2015Dr Michael Hrebeniak describes himself as inveterately curious about people and places. His fascination for a messy patch of Cambridge, best known for its traffic...
Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe
16 January 2015Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of...
Lassa fever controls need to consider human to human transmission and the role of ‘super spreaders’, say researchers
15 January 2015One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to...
Lack of exercise responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity
14 January 2015A brisk 20 minute walk each day could be enough to reduce an individual’s risk of early death, according to new research published today. The...
Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts
12 January 2015“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published...
Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family
12 January 2015Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using...
Practice really does make perfect
08 January 2015New research into the way in which we learn new skills finds that a single skill can be learned faster if its follow-through motion is...