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By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Teenage boys with conduct disorder have trouble recognising emotions in facial expressions, research funded by the Wellcome Trust has revealed.
The study found that people diagnosed with conduct disorder before the age of ten have an impaired ability to recognise anger, disgust and happiness in facial expressions, while [...]

This week the Nature podcast team discover a 35,000 year-old figurine with exaggerated breasts, look back to the origins of RNA, look forward to a new light source that could replace ugly fluorescent strip lights, and ask: is free will an illusion?

It’s good news for those keen on particle physics, but bad news for those who thought we’d narrowly escaped the world’s end: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back on track!
The LHC is a huge atom smasher, located near Geneva, Switzerland, which scientists hope will give us some info on how the universe began and what [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Scientists have developed a new, automated way to collect blood samples, increasing the consistency of samples and reducing the need for multiple procedures.
Blood tests are common procedures in medicine and sometimes several are required over a prolonged period. Hormones, for example, fluctuate throughout the day and need multiple [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Our short-term memory is configured to remember angry faces better than happy or neutral ones, Trust-funded researchers have found.
Our brains are thought to use emotional connotations as a way to recall information better. Long-term memory seems to favour positive information, but the new study shows that this is [...]