Obesity linked to premature death, with greatest effect in men
14 July 2016A study of 3.9 million adults published today in The Lancet has found that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of...
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A study of 3.9 million adults published today in The Lancet has found that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of...
Justin Pearce (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses the historical roots of the current conflict in Mozambique.
An international team of astronomers has proved the existence of a ‘gravitational vortex’ around a black hole, solving a mystery that has eluded astronomers for...
Andy Martin (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) discusses existentialism and the EU referendum.
Alain Naef (Faculty of History) discusses Brexit's impact on the value of the pound.
Scientists have identified for the first time the ‘cell of origin’ – in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows – in...
The process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation...
A new study into an ancient sea worm called Oesia offers clues about a common ancestor which they shared with vertebrates, including humans, while also...
With its very first – and last – observation, the Hitomi x-ray observatory has discovered that the gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies is...
In the first genome-scale experiment of its kind, researchers have gained new insights into how a mouse embryo first begins to transform from a ball...