Medicine

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

Caffeine seems to be vital for the functioning of the modern world, from keeping drivers awake to getting that last...

Are the days of private thoughts numbered? A new development in neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (...

A material designed originally to help rockets blast into space (Cytomatrix) is now helping scientists in America to...

A report was published warning that Britain's prosperity will suffer if the government does not come up with new...

Discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen almost by accident, X rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes...

Dan starts a three part series on dream interpretation. He starts by looking at how theoreticians have viewed dreams,...

The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) is a large multi-centre study looking at the connection between...

The brain is probably the most fascinating yet impenetrable organ studied by scientists. One question that remains to...

Research has shown that bald males command a larger harem of females than their hairier counterparts...that is, if the...

Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some...

Chris Smith describes how cloning, occuring naturally in your body continuously, will have produced literally metres of...

As the war continues against "lad culture" which, according to David Blunkett, is responsible for boys'...

Nothing that you do is safe. Everything carries an inherent risk, but what is justifiable risk, and how do you assess...

The effects of a stroke depend upon which part of the brain are deprived of blood. Researchers are studying the cause...

Blasting away at someone's eyes with a powerful laser sounds like a form of torture dreampt up by a Bond villan,...

Chips that can plug into the brain and translate thoughts to computers, or help paralysed people to move, are no longer...

Consultant radiologist, Dr. Bob Bury, discusses public perception of risk and how we assess risk in the context of...

By the year 2020, the number of people in the world suffering from blindness will have risen to 45 million. The vast...

Or for that matter, if you eat a chilled chilli pepper, what will happen? Dalya considers these questions and...

Nanomedicine, nanotechnology and nanoengineering are the future of science and medicine. Barry Gibb describes how the...

Radiologist Bob Bury puts the case for screening the population for preventable, and less preventable, diseases. and...

On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary took the last few decisive steps up Mount Everest. Dalya has a look...

A clinical trial testing an Alzheimer's Disease vaccine was dealt a crushing blow when some of patients showed...