What do drugs do to the brain?
17 March 2011Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading...
Where empires meet
17 March 2011How two ‘rising powers’ – China and Russia – interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led...
Children’s evidence cross-examined
16 March 2011Should young children be exposed to the traumatic experience of giving evidence in open court, or does the justice system need to change its approach?
Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed
14 March 2011Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.
Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier
14 March 2011Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated by the...
Diabetes drug improves survival from life-threatening infectious disease
14 March 2011Scientists have identified a diabetes drug which halves the mortality rate of a deadly infectious disease found throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Happy children make happy adults
14 March 2011New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.
Fair representation in Europe?
11 March 2011Until now, seats in the European Parliament have been allocated by political bargaining. A fairer way has been devised by an international panel of mathematicians,...
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08 March 2011A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...
Extra testosterone reduces your empathy
10 February 2011A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively...