Women need friends, men need family: UK study confirms importance of social networks
By Charis Palmer, The Conversation
Having a wide circle of friends is important to psychological wellbeing, but a network of relatives is more important for...
Tasty treat: how we showed fat to be the sixth taste
By Russell Keast, Deakin University
Humans are thought to be able to taste five qualities but technological advances combined with sophisticated research means we can...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Metabolomics: wine and cheese, curing disease … no doping please
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute and Rae-Anne Hardie, Garvan Institute
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research.
A series...
Crime pays – could it offer students more than an MBA?
By Mike Marinetto, Cardiff University
Once upon a time, in the warm neoliberal afterglow of the 1990s – the early post-Thatcher age – the MBA...
New ammunition in the battle to save North American bats from white-nose syndrome
By Chris Cornelison, Georgia State University
It’s been roughly eight years since white-nose syndrome (WNS) was first documented decimating bat populations in upstate New York....
Awake, online and sleep-deprived – the rise of the teenage ‘vamper’
By Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell phone...
Neglected immunisation could almost double child measles in Ebola-hit countries
By Andrew J Tatem, University of Southampton
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been one of the biggest public health disasters of modern times....
