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Hands free mobile phone conversations add 5 metres to drivers' braking distances
Dr Melina Kunar, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Psychology, and Dr Todd Horowitz, from Harvard Medical School, ran a number of experiments in…
Subtitles do not guarantee hearing-impaired viewers a total comprehension of television messages
Researchers at the UAB Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology have studied the level of comprehension of subtitled television programmes…
Gene which protects against lung cancer identified
The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA and funded by a £72,000 grant from the British Lung Foundation, has…
Oetzi's last supper
What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the…
New Global blueprint to treat childhood cancer
The 25 country report has led to the creation of the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Classification System, with the results published in two papers in…
New Study Identifies Link between Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Healthy Adults
A group of scientists and physicians from the University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System in Seattle, in collaboration with…