Substance over style? That’s entertainment
14 March 2011Whether they affect the films we watch, the books we read or the music we listen to, our choices about entertainment often appear to have...
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.
Research on the front line
11 March 2011An ambitious project with global reach seeks to address the most difficult and persistent internal conflicts – struggles for ethnic identity and national self-determination –...
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,...
Read all about it!
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...
Enter the Map of Life and meet a thorny devil
03 March 2011A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus and how animals separated by millions of years can...
New cell death mechanism has implications for breast cancer treatments
25 February 2011A novel mechanism of cell death that occurs in mammalian organisms has been revealed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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...
Immune interaction optimises foetal nourishment during pregnancy
08 February 2011Paternal genes advise maternal immune cells on how to build the best womb for developing foetuses, researchers have found.