A UCL-led research team has identified a rare mutation that causes one family to have unusually low sensitivity to pain. The researchers hope the findings, published today in Brain, could be used […]
Gene Mutation Causes Low Sensitivity To Pain
Openness To Experience Trumps Intellectual Curiosity For Learning
People who are open to new experiences are better at learning than those who are intellectually curious reveals new research from LSE. The research, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology […]
Expert Comment: Chris Froome And High Salbutamol Urine Concentration
Dr John Dickinson, the UK’s foremost expert in asthma in elite athletes, comments on the news that champion cyclist Chris Froome returned an ‘adverse’ drugs test at the Vuelta a Espana (Tour […]
Over 50s With Fewer Teeth At Risk Of Frailty
New research by scientists at King’s College London has found that tooth loss may contribute to musculoskeletal frailty in the over 50s, with those with fewer than 20 teeth being at greatest […]
Why We Can’t Always Stop What We’ve Started
When we try to stop a body movement at the last second, perhaps to keep ourselves from stepping on what we just realized was ice, we can’t always do it — and […]
Clean Energy: Experts Outline How Governments Can Successfully Invest Before It’s Too Late
Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” […]
Students’ Early Test Scores Do Not Predict Academic Growth Over Time, Stanford Research Finds
A new analysis of data from all public school districts in the United States indicates that poverty does not determine the quality of a school system. For years, parents and policymakers have […]
Could Ancient Bones Suggest Santa Was Real?
New Oxford University research has revealed that bones long venerated as relics of the saint, do in fact date from the right historical period. One of the most revered Christian saints, St […]
Tigers Cling To Survival In Sumatra’s Increasingly Fragmented Forests
A research expedition tracked endangered tigers through the Sumatran jungles for a year and found tigers are clinging to survival in low density populations. Their findings have renewed fears about the possible […]
How Much Should A Victim Be Compensated For Emotional Suffering?
New study finds lay people award less compensation to someone incurring an emotional loss if that person also incurs a small economic loss. If a company sends one of its workers to […]
Eye Contact With Your Baby Helps Synchronise Your Brainwaves
Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the […]
Marriage May Help Stave Off Dementia
Marriage may lower the risk of developing dementia, concludes a UCL-led synthesis of the available evidence published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Lifelong singletons and widowers are at […]
New Laser Technique Detects Soot Particles In Blood And Urine
Researchers from UHasselt and KU Leuven have developed a brand-new method to detect soot particles in the human body. Recent research has shown that, each year, over 4.2 million individuals around the […]
Prehistoric Women’s Manual Work Was Tougher Than Rowing In Today’s Elite Boat Crews
The first study to compare ancient and living female bones shows that women from early agricultural eras had stronger arms than the rowers of Cambridge University’s famously competitive boat club. Researchers say […]
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