Not Hitler. This is Edward Burton, also known as Eric Arthur Blair, also known as George Orwell By Luke Seaber, University College London If you had been walking down Mile End Road in London on…

A new article  in the Georgia Law Review details the relationship of two U.S. Supreme Court cases, their impact on freedom of expression, and how they relate to blogging and citizen journalism.…

Psychology surveys have found that when people go to bed and thus how long they sleep at a time might actually make it difficult for people to stop worrying. The surveys showed that people who sleep…

Why does the new space craft look like a capsule?  The simple fact is that between a capsule and a space plane like the shuttle, a capsule is the better vehicle for a direct return trip from…

Alzheimer's disease progresses inside the brain as deposits of the toxic protein amyloid-beta (Aβ),overwhelm neurons. A side effect of accumulating Aβ in neurons is the fragmentation of the Golgi…

Epidemiologists have examined the relationship between body weight and life expectancy and say that overweight and obese individuals have the potential to decrease life expectancy by up to 8 years.…

A new technique involves wrapping chemotherapy drugs in a liposome - a fatty cover - and it reduces heart damage that would otherwise occur, according to a presentation by Professor Jutta Bergler…

The diode has a number of applications in electronic circuits. One application you may be familiar with is a rectifier. A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).…

The Obamacare website is not the only thing that debuted incomplete, buggy, difficult to use and nonetheless mandated. The Open Payments Program database, also known as the Physician Payments…

Psychics, homeopaths, magic soap buyers, anti-vaccine and anti-energy people, they all share one thing in common - no, no, not the same political party (good guess, though!), they embrace organic…

Best to keep it under the covers? Lisa S. By Sally O'Reilly, The Open University Sexual intercourse has been getting it on for a long time. Not only has it been boosting the human population since…

Four months ago I started a diet, as my weight had gone above my comfort zone (77kg, when my optimal weight is of about 70kg). I basically implemented a regime (which has worked in the past) of about…

But what do you want unconsciously? Julien Behal / PA By Steffen Böhm, University of Essex and Aanka Batta, University of Essex Another month, another important UN climate change conference. The…

In the last 20,000 years, Europeans and Asians became numerous and their descendants now comprise the bulk of our 7 billion population. Prior to that, for 130,000 years, the Khoisan (they call…

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, have been banned since 1979, but if you live on top of a waste disposal site or you…

Some new mothers who are breast-feeding (and some who should have stopped by now) have turned to medications to help increase their milk supply - and that meant off-label use of domperidone, a nausea…

Your memory can play tricks on you. Shutterstock By Catherine Loveday, University of Westminster Six weeks ago I arrived back in London after my first trip to Australia. It felt considerably colder…

A new optical technique by which audio information can be extracted from high-speed video recordings, by using an image-matching process based on vibration from sound waves. The technique is based on…

Some paper have suggested a link between the diabetes medication pioglitazone and bladder cancer but a new analysis, including more than 1,000,000 people in six populations worldwide, has found no…

It's the research that counts. Shutterstock By Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge I love my job. I’m trying to understand how plants build themselves out of thin air. It’s exciting, it’s…