Medicine

Researchers have been investigating how the unexpected affects how well and what you remember. If you want to be...

Nature produces a seemingly limitless number of compounds that are valuable for treating disease. Over 30% of the top-...

Functional imaging (brain scanning) using magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to probe the workings of the...

The illuminating story of colour constancy: why what you think you see and what you actually see are different...

Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high...

Dan looks at dream interpretation again and may reveal that meaningful dream interpretation can reliably be...

性:一个简短的词。经常使用。常用于出售products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our...

Why do people often look sideways when they're answering a question? And why do they sometimes look right, and...

The Chilean Sea Bass, or Patagonian Toothfish, is a very tasty fish particularly popular in America. Gene looks into...

We all know about pain, or at least we think we do. Things that damage our bodies cause pain. But do you always feel...

The placenta forms on the uterus wall during pregnancy and, via the umbilical cord, links the baby to its mother. Chris...

In 1953 Cambridge scientists Watson & Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 50 years later other...

The joke goes that humans end up resembling their pets. But it looks increasingly like animals are having the last...

Transposons are pieces of DNA that have jumped their way around our genome throughout evolution. What are transposons...

I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.

The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must...

This article looks at how influenza (flu) was discovered, how influenza spreads, infects people, and grows, how to...

Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how...

Photo-therapy is the term used to describe treatments which use light to achieve their effects. But how do these work...

The recently discovered traces of ricin in a makeshift laboratory in a flat in London have caused a media frenzy over...

Radiologist Bob Bury investigates some of the new 'scanning' technologies, which have revolutionised medical...

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What is a smell?

The chemistry of cooking, including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how taste and flavour work...