Beyond the harem: ways to be a woman during the Ottoman Empire
12 August 2016A new volume of essays looks afresh at women’s lives during the 600 years of the Ottoman empire. The book challenges the stereotypes of female...
Virus attracts bumblebees to infected plants by changing scent
11 August 2016Study of bee-manipulating plant virus reveals a “short-circuiting” of natural selection. Researchers suggest that replicating the scent caused by infection could encourage declining bee populations...
Gene signature in healthy brains pinpoints the origins of Alzheimer’s disease
10 August 2016A specific gene expression pattern maps out which parts of the brain are most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, decades before symptoms appear, and helps define...
Textbook story of how humans populated America is “biologically unviable”, study finds
10 August 2016Using ancient DNA, researchers have created a unique picture of how a prehistoric migration route evolved over thousands of years – revealing that it could...
Where the river meets the sea: the making of ethical decisions
10 August 2016What is our place in the natural world – and how do we feel about the scientific advances that are changing the way we live? In...
Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for up to four years
09 August 2016The first study to look at the impact of the relationship with teachers on adolescent behaviour finds that a positive teacher-student relationship can be as...
Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics
08 August 2016Researchers have built a record energy-efficient switch, which uses the interplay of electricity and a liquid form of light, in semiconductor microchips. The device could...
Opinion: Only by keeping close ties with Europe can UK research remain globally competitive
08 August 2016Ash Amin (Department of Geography) and John Bell (Faculty of Law) discuss the importance of European research collaborations, and how they might continue post-Brexit.
Opinion: Musical genres are out of date – but this new system explains why you might like both jazz and hip hop
05 August 2016David Greenberg (Department of Psychology) discusses the problems of labeling music by genre.
Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ than lean counterparts at middle-age
04 August 2016From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new...