A new study by a sociologist at the University of Kent reveals how mixed-race British parents draw from their ethnic and racial backgrounds in identifying and raising their children. While mixed race […]
A new study by a sociologist at the University of Kent reveals how mixed-race British parents draw from their ethnic and racial backgrounds in identifying and raising their children. While mixed race […]
Sheep can be trained to recognise human faces from photographic portraits – and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training – according to new research from scientists at […]
Group B Streptococcus infection causes an estimated 150,000 preventable stillbirths and infant deaths every year. 21.7 million pregnant women carry this bacteria according to the first global study of Group B Strep […]
A change in a single amino acid determines which species are vulnerable, study finds. Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, […]
Researchers from KU Leuven and the Francis Crick Institute have pinpointed 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming. Their findings could help develop personalised cancer treatments that target these genes. […]
Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern […]
Innovation isn’t as simple as choosing from a menu – it depends on a company’s organisational structure, says new paper co-authored by Professor Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias of Cambridge Judge Business School. […]
A new study suggests that women are more heavily influenced than men by test anxiety, and points to ways to help close the gender gap. Research has long shown that women who […]
Modified silk from Asian wild silkworms could be used in a strategy to repair damaged spinal cords, according to scientists from the universities of Aberdeen and Oxford. The researchers, working in collaboration […]
Childhood disadvantage is strongly associated with poorer adult mental wellbeing for Generation X, according to a UCL study. This remained the case even if they were able to overcome their childhood circumstances […]
Even when people are hard at work, pictures of cookies, pizza and ice cream can distract them — and these junk food images are almost twice as distracting as health food pictures, […]
Many people argue that women are held to unfairly high standards and must outperform men with similar qualifications to receive equal evaluations. New research coming from Columbia Business School and Yale School […]
A new report from the Stanford History Education Group finds that fact checkers read less but learn more – far outpacing historians and top college students. How do expert researchers go about […]
Skin plays a surprising role in helping regulate blood pressure and heart rate, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. While this discovery was made in […]