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 [...]
Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, the big news in the science communication world is Simon Singh losing his recent libel case with the British Chiropractic Association, which could have major implications for all science journalists looking to fight pseudoscience. A selection of coverage:
>> Guardian
>> Nature
>> New Scientist
>> The Economist
This was still a [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to a friend, I recently discovered two brilliant games that are really harnessing the potential of crowdsourced science and multiplayer online communities.
Signtific lab takes a big question (What will happen in the future?) and shuffles it with a simple card game and your imagination. Each ‘trial’ focuses on a simple question (the last one [...]