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Pulsating Coral

28/04/2013

Scientists resolve the age old mystery of pulsating coral video...

Cleaning up use of Bath Salts

27/04/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapew designer drug, ‘bath salts’, may confer additional risk for adolescents. It is yet unclear whether or not...

Labelling Calorie Footprint

26/04/2013

Menu labels displaying amount of exercise needed to burn calories show benefits in helping reduce people their calorie footprint....

Got Dog? Tick Season!

25/04/2013

Got tick! Scientists test the effectiveness of common anti-tick measures at preventing tick-borne infections in dogs...

Turner Prize 2013 Shortlist Announced

25/04/2013

Turner prize shortlist...

Relative Rudeness : Cultural Customer Service Pitfalls

24/04/2013

Research shows that culture plays a significant role in how frontline workers deal with customer rudeness and abuse...

Final Line-Up Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

23/04/2013

After last years amazing festival - we can now announce the final line up for the Cambridge Folk Festival 2013. ...

Weblink Google and Cancer

23/04/2013

The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body...

TV = Antisocial behaviours

22/04/2013

Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day are increasingly likely to develop antisocial behaviours...

Emergency Preparation [Zombie watch]

21/04/2013

Well designed and planned exercises are essential to ensure that the UK can respond effectively to emergencies of all kinds says emergency based research...

Hot Memory, Cold Sore

20/04/2013

The virus that causes cold sore s, along with other viral or bacterial infections, may be associated with cognitive problems...

Nanowire Solar Cells

19/04/2013

A single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity increasing the potential for highly efficient solar cells....

Where’s Maggie?

18/04/2013

Never stop looking, never stop looking... for Maggie. Trebuchet visits Margaret Thatcher's funeral...

Down Syndrome Breakthrough

18/04/2013

Sanford-Burnham researchers discover that the extra chromosome inherited in Down syndrome impairs learning and memory because it leads to low levels of SNX27 protein in the brain...

Men and women get sick in different ways

17/04/2013

A new study highlights evidence for considerable differences between the sexes in five domains – cardiovascular disease, cancer, liver diseases, osteoporosis, and pharmacology....

Sports fandom and forgiveness

16/04/2013

Celebrity confessions : Deep in Sports fandom do we really believe that anyone believes them anymore? ...

Sexuality and Dementia

15/04/2013

Managing the delicate issue of sexual expression amongst people with dementia. Sexuality and Dementia study produced by Griffith University....

Supercomputer Decodes the Noisey Cosmos

14/04/2013

Noisey Cosmos | scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background...

Loitered Lens : Stiff Little Fingers

14/04/2013

Always a lightning rod for the angst and alienation of a troubled province, Stiff Little Fingers can still provoke. Photos from their recent Forum gig. ...

Lyme Disease Considered Least Metal

13/04/2013

Scientists have confirmed that the pathogen that causes Lyme Disease —unlike any other known organism—can exist without iron, a metal that all other life needs to make proteins and enzymes....

GV Art and Mind Symposium

12/04/2013

GV Art, in partnership with Art and Mind, announce the attendance of Charles Ferneyhough at the GV Art and Mind Symposium 16 on May 7th....

UK Drug Policy Not Scientific

12/04/2013

UKdrug policy : Government decision to promote abstinence for drug users 'is about saving money not science' ...

Olive Oil : Superfood

11/04/2013

Extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) yet another health benefit of this amazing product...

Family dinners nourish good mental health

10/04/2013

Benefits of family meals to good mental health examined in a large community sample of adolescents....

Career Options for Geek Chicks

09/04/2013

Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career options...

Good news for Nice People

08/04/2013

Conscientious, nice people are more likely to have higher grade point averages, according to new research from psychologists at Rice University....

180,000 dead by Sodas

07/04/2013

Sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks may be associated with about 180,000 deaths around the world each year...

Robert Louis Jefferson

06/04/2013

In the late 19th century Journalist and Epic Cyclist Robert Louis Jefferson made some spectacular cycles from London to the Constantinople, Khiva and beyond....