Fingers and Traders

The length of your fingers determines whether you've got the Midas touch... Scientists have revealed this week that the relative lengths of a persons' fingers can predict money-making ability on the financial markets.  Cambridge University Judge Business School researcher John Coates and his ...

Miniature water creatures harbour antibacterial secrets

As you can read in any paper, there are big problems today with hospital-acquired infections – people picking up nasty bugs in hospital – along with antibiotic resistance, meaning we have fewer weapons in our fight against bacteria. So the search is on for new antibiotics.Now scientists at the unive...

Rheumatoid Arthritis B-Cell Breakthrough

A new discovery has shed light on the mechanism by which joints are damaged by rheumatoid arthritis, scientists announced this week. Writing in this week's edition of the journal PLoS Medicine Barts and the London Medical school researcher Constantino Pitzalis and his colleagues collected samples f...

Talking about post-natal depression

Post-natal depression affects a significant proportion of new mothers. Some studies suggest one in twenty may be affected, while others show it could be as high as one in four. Not only can this be a problem for the mother, but it can also have an impact on her child and its care, and in the worst c...

Does methane on Mars mean life?

Scientists have discovered methane on Mars, which comes and goes with the seasons. Could this be evidence of methanogenic bacteria beneath the surface of the red planet?