Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a new property of essential proteins which, when it malfunctions, can cause...

The old adage says practice makes perfect, but a new study from the University of Cambridge has shown that personality...

Take a look at the black and white image. It probably looks like a meaningless pattern of black and white...

Scientists have identified an ingeniously elegant brain circuit consisting of just five nerve cells that allows female crickets to automatically...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge University have published new results in the journal PLoS ONE from the largest ever study...

Young adults diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adolescence show differences in brain structure and perform poorly in memory...

'Bang! You're Dead', a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, continues to surprise - but not just with the twist...

Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky,...

Previous studies have shown that men find female faces more attractive when the women are ovulating, but the visual clues...

A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers...

Pre-birth exposure to high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone has already been shown to confer evolutionary advantages for...

People in a society are bound together by a set of connections - a social network. Cooperation between people in...

The circumstances in which a protein closely associated with Parkinson's Disease begins to malfunction and aggregate in the brain have...

Misfiring of the brain's control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to researchers at the University of...

West African chimpanzees will search far and wide to find Alchornea hirtella, a spindly shrub whose straight shoots provide the...