Source: Telegraph
The discovery of dozens of underground tunnels has uncovered the extraordinary risks that Allied prisoners took bidding for freedom from the Nazi prison camp that inspired The Great Escape.
Source: ABC News
"I wanted to understand how we recognize our own body and how we know where in space our body is located," said Henrik Ehrsson, an assistant professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and a researcher at University College London.
Source: BBC News
Carbon offsetting schemes are all well and good, but do little to change the way people live day-to-day, argues Stefaan Simons.
Source: BBC News
Many people believe potentially harmful myths about epilepsy, a study from University College London suggests. A third would put something in the mouth of a person having a seizure to stop them swallowing their tongue - but doing so could block their airways.
Source: njnightsky.com
Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System.
Source: EurekAlert!
New evidence on sex differences in people's brains and behaviors emerges with the publication of results from the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Sex ID Internet Survey.
Source: Telegraph
Scientists have charted for the first time how intense stress caused by bereavement can make someone "die of a broken heart".
Source: Science Daily
University College London researchers have found the first physiological evidence that invisible subliminal images do attract the brain's attention on a subconscious level.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
From the page: -- The old wives' tale has it that a hot water bottle can relieve pain deep in the body - and now scientists have discovered why. A hot compress can physically shut down the normal pain response involved in stomach aches, period pain or colic. --
Source: BBC News
From the article: Technology that enables artificial limbs to be directly attached to a human skeleton has been developed by British scientists.
Source: BBC News
Variant CJD, the human version of mad cow disease (BSE), may have an incubation period as long as 50 years or more. To date there have only been 160 cases of vCJD in the UK prompting many to believe the original panic was massively overblown.
Source: Harvard University Gazette
Researchers at Harvard University and University College London have developed diagnostic tests for prosopagnosia, a socially disabling inability to recognize or distinguish faces.