London's international fish trade can be traced back 800 years to the medieval period, according to new research published today in the journal Antiquity . The research, led by archaeologists from UCL, Cambridge and UCLan, provides new insight into the medieval fish trade and the globalisation of London's food supply. Archaeologists analysed data from nearly 3,000 cod bones found in 95 different excavations...
An ecologist records nature's color signals to understand the feedback between plants and a changing climate....
Professor Simon Capewell, professor at the University of Liverpool thinks there should be health warning labels on sugary drinks. He cites the climate in California, which is effectively a one-party state, so if a current bill to put warning labels on sugary drinks makes it out of committee, it will get passed and vending machines would have to carry warning labels and the fine would be up to...
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen, has lashed out at what he says is his Government's "incoherent" decision to slash funding for scientific research while at the same time introducing a new fee to help fund medical research. ...
Despite claims by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Obama administration that gaining more control over school choices will lead to healthier kids, school-based schemes to encourage children to eat healthily and be active have little effect. England has had similar lack of effect. Low levels of physical activity and of fruit and vegetable consumption in childhood are associated...
A blood test for a preventable form of heart disease, caused by inherited high cholesterol levels, is being rolled out in the UK....
Birds come in astounding variety—from hummingbirds to emus—and behave in myriad ways: they soar the skies, swim the waters, and forage the forests. But this wasn't always the case, according to research by scientists at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum. The researchers found a striking lack of diversity in the earliest known fossil bird fauna (a set of species that lived at about the...
Archaeologists have identified what they say is the earliest dental implant known from Western Europe....
Researchers identify neurons in mice which determine resilience to depression. ...
Spontaneous thoughts, intuitions, quick impressions, we all have random thoughts popping into our minds on a daily basis and sometimes they even pop out of our mouths. What to make of unplanned, spur-of-the-moment thoughts? If you know bad psychologists, you know they can't attend a Christmas party without declaring the entire room as having Asperger's based on snap judgments, but how do we view...
Though we share superficial physical similarities, the cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are obvious - we metaphorically throw feces at each other while they do it literally. We have been able to use our superior mental abilities to construct civilizations and manipulate our environment to our will, allowing us to take over our planet and walk on...
Can you predict how sensitive your sense of taste is by sticking your tongue out and counting the bumps? A long-standing hypothesis says this is so. But a little crowdsourcing of science - what used to be called doing a study - disproved that idea that "supertasters" owe their special sensitivity to bitter tastes to an usually high density of taste buds on their tongue, according to a paper in Frontiers...
Different levels of cerebral blood flow between males and females during puberty could give hints to developing differences in behavior between the two sexes and sex-specific pre-disposition to certain psychiatric disorders, a new study suggests. ...
Whether it was a business trip one-night stand or a "bisexual bonobo" birthday party , Zhana Vrangalova wants to know all about your latest hookup. The sex researcher and NYU instructor is behind The Casual Sex Project , a recently-launched website that asks people to anonymously submit their hookup stories. Vrangalova hopes that sharing these stories will help to demystify casual sexual encounters....
(Reuters) - Climate changes that have made Montana streams much warmer over the last 30 years are helping invasive trout push their native cousins toward extinction, researchers said on Tuesday, saying study is an example of global warming reducing biodiversity. ...
The scientist who personifies the greatest achievements of Greek and Western science was Archimedes. He applied mathematics for the understanding of the natural world and the cosmos. In one of his books, Ψαμμιτης ( Psammites ), or The Sand-Reckoner , Archimedes attempted to measure the size of the universe by calculating the number of the grains of sand necessary to fill the cosmos (sphere of the fixed...
I'll be hosting a Twitter chat on Thursday afternoon--3:30 pm EST--with Dr. David Porter, one of the top investigators on the CAR-T team at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer Published: 05/27/2014 10:28 AM EDT on LiveScience SAN FRANCISCO — The idea that eating certain foods make us feel better when we're down may be a myth, psychologists say. In fact, we may simply feel better after some time has passed, regardless of what food we eat, a new study says. In the study, people were asked to pick foods that they thought would make them feel...
Just 6 months after springing into existing with a pivotal-stage program in the clinic under an experienced set of executives and investigators, biotech spinoff Spark Therapeutics has gathered a whopping $72.8 million venture round designed to get through a Phase III study and well down the road to its goal of becoming a fully integrated company. ...
NASA's giant new rocket, the Space Launch System, and its Orion space capsule are making progress toward two key test flights in the upcoming years. See how far along NASA's new rocket and spacecraft are, and what's next for the U.S. space vehicles....