Medicine

Have you ever wondered why people donate their body to medical science? Or what goes on in the dissection room? Medical...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

Rheanna Sand gives us an insight into how deadly toxins can be used to serve, rather than to harm, humans. She takes a...

Have you ever wondered what happens to a body when it is donated to a medical school? Have you ever wondered what it...

Unless you’re shot in the head or hit by a bus, your immune system has a major and direct influence on your life span!...

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion...

“Love is the drug and I need to score,” sang Bryan Ferry in the seventies, earning him a smash hit and a small fortune...

We’re all searching for happiness, but do we really know what this is or where to find it? Douglas E. Richards gives...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

Is urine bad? Yes, when it ends up on the bathroom floor. What can be done to avoid these unaesthetic accidents? As...

What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the...

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the...

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can...

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In...

Why am I so cranky when I don’t get enough sleep? And why was it all better once I had a good night rest?

Picking scabs. We all do it, and funnily enough, we all squirm when we think about it...

Since scientists discovered how DNA behaves like a giant genetic recipe book encoding the entire suite of proteins...

Every day our bodies are assailed by microbes of all descriptions, but for the most part we successfully fend them off...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

The feasibility of a female oestrus amongst humans had been dismissed by the masses. But now a study of tipping amongst...

Just as winter follows summer, the chances are you'll catch a cold this winter - but what is the sticky stuff that...