Expressing your feelings | Caggie-handed Cameron | Colston Hall | Grandparents’ namesHaving worked as a psychotherapist for 12 years I concur that swearing makes us stronger (Report, 5 May). People brought up in a culture of obedience and “being good” repress their negative feelings, which can lead to passivity, inertia and depression. I teach clients that swearing in private is a harmless way to express pent-up anger and frustrations and can give us the energy and power to challenge long-held oppressive beliefs. When we practise we usually start laughing – a bonus.

Mass migration and climate change – not to mention a giant squid: Leviathan has it all. As his wildly ambitious new work opens in Venice, he reveals the story behind a strange odyssey that will take years to completeThe giant squid, democracy, mental health, migration – big beasts, one and all. And each plays a role in Leviathan, a cycle of 10 films by artist Shezad Dawood that traces links from human activity to marine ecology and back again. The fates of crayfish, phytoplankton and spots on the sun are intertwined with that of the desperate souls crossing the Mediterranean in ill-suited vessels, heading for countries swinging away from liberal democracy.Leviathan is, as its name suggests, ambitious verging on the unwieldy: Dawood jokes that he and his wife refer to the project simply as LV around the home, to stop him freaking out. As well as the films – to be shot and released over the next three years – there’s a novel, paintings, sculptures and a series of talks and symposia featuring scientists and researchers who have contributed. The first two episodes, as well as a suite of paintings on cloth and a lustrous resin sculpture, will all be shown in Venice alongside this year’s biennale.

Artist Shezad Dawood’s multi-platform work, Leviathan, weaves a tale of oceanic ecology and migration in paintings, sculpture, fiction and a cycle of 10 films – to be released between now and 2020. Watch a trailer for the saga’s first episode, entitled Ben Continue reading...

When Scott Carney set out to debunk the health benefits of extreme cold, a strange thing happened. He tells Tim Adams about lighting his ‘inner fire’Before Scott Carney set about climbing a Polish mountain in his underwear in temperatures 10 degrees below zero, he believed his days of adventure were just about over. He was in his mid-30s. An anthropologist by training and a journalist by vocation he had written two books about the dangerous extremes to which humans go to find salvation – the first about the black market in organ donation, the second about the fatal consequences of a particular meditation practice.His journey to the Polish mountain – called Sněžka, 5,300ft, the pinnacle of the Silesian mountain range – had begun one afternoon at his computer in Long Beach, California, with palm trees swaying gently outside his window. He had been idly Googling when he came across a picture of a man in his 50s sitting cross-legged on a glacier in the Arctic Circle, unclothed. Continue reading...

The pioneering Tomorrow’s World is being revived at a crucial time in our fraught relationship with innovationA younger member of my family has been known to leave the room, wailing: “They’re talking about sweets again!” when those of a certain age rhapsodise about the confectionery of yore; Spangles, Sherbet Fountains and Kola Kubes do not float his boat. Thus we are made to realise how tiresome group nostalgia is to youth, which immediately sparks a slew of memories of how irksome it was every time one’s parents insisted that David Sylvian was all well and good, but they preferred songs where you could hear the lyrics.So the first rule of writing about the BBC’s (sort of) revival of Tomorrow’s World, the future technology programme that ran for nearly 40 years, is to avoid banging on about how back then we were all told we’d be swallowing pills instead of roast dinners and be strapped into personal transporters. (The latter became so ingrained in the collective culture that there is a band called We Were Promised Jetpacks, formed in 2003, the year Tomorrow’s World last aired). Continue reading...

Director hails clash between science and political dogma as more relevant than everWatching stars at the theatre takes on new meaning at the Young Vic in London this month. A swirling cosmos and a giant planetarium have been recreated for an ambitious staging of Life Of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece about the 17th-century astronomer.The production marks a return to live performance by Joe Wright, one of the UK’s foremost film directors. Some of the audience will be on the floor, lying down or sitting on scattered cushions, from which they will gaze up at inspiring footage of stars, planets and cosmic clouds projected on to a vast circular structure suspended from the ceiling. Actors will perform among the audience and along a narrow circular platform, like a planetary ring system. The rest of the audience will be seated around them. Continue reading...

Edinburgh University study of early indicators raises hopes of finding a way to ward off disease through lifestyle changesLosing your navigational skills or getting lost even though you are in a familiar setting may provide some of the first indications that Alzheimer’s disease could affect you in later life. This is a preliminary discovery of a remarkable long-term study being carried out by scientists who are searching to uncover how dementia first affects the brain.The Prevent project – based at Edinburgh University, though it involves several other UK research centres – is intended to detect signs of Alzheimer’s in people while they are still relatively young. Usually, the disease does not show its symptoms until individuals are in their 60s, by which time it has already done profound damage to the brain. Continue reading...

David Robinson Simon says ‘aggressive messaging strategy’ deprives consumers of ability to make ‘independent decisions’ on foodThe Australian government has a vested interest in ensuring the country’s consumption of meat remains the highest in the world, even to the detriment of the population, a US lawyer has said.David Robinson Simon, a Californian attorney and author, has argued that meat and dairy producers in the US and, increasingly, Australia, are teaming with governments to encourage people to consume more animal products than they otherwise would. Continue reading...

The new director of the Royal Institution, Sarah Harper, asks young scientists “to consider the whole social, ethical, moral and political framing of debates … It’s important that the scientist is no longer someone who just sits in a lab. All young scientists should think about public engagement” (Report, 2 May). A good start might be to implement the Nobel laureate Joseph Rotblat’s Hippocratic oath for graduating scientists: “I promise to work for a better world, where science and technology are used in socially responsible ways. I will not use my education for any purpose intended to harm human beings or the environment. Throughout my career I will consider the ethical implications of my work before I take action. While the demands placed upon me may be great, I sign this declaration because I recognise that individual responsibility is the first step on the path to peace.”

Researchers describe the ‘emotional chatting machine’ as a first attempt at the problem of creating machines that can fully understand user emotionAn “emotional chatting machine” has been developed by scientists, signalling the approach of an era in which human-robot interactions are seamless and go beyond the purely functional.The chatbot, developed by a Chinese team, is seen as a significant step towards the goal of developing emotionally sophisticated robots. Continue reading...

We’re fascinated by what quizzes might show us about ourselves, but being human means being unpredictable – doesn’t it?Are you a quiz taker? Do you yearn to “build a boyfriend” in order to discover your favourite Starbucks drink? Because presumably you have no idea what that might be. Or perhaps you want something more sophisticated, such as Buzzfeed’s incisive “Which ousted Arab Spring ruler are you?” (really).Know thyself, they say. And so personality quizzes appeal to even the most cynical of us. Because, let’s face it, we’re narcissists. We love hearing more about the most fascinating, yet strangely unknowable, person we will ever meet: ourselves. Why do we do the things we do? Why, for example, did I go all the way to the British Library yesterday, and then, surrounded by 150m or so literary splendours, spend two hours perusing the Daily Mail’s sidebar of shame? Truly, ’tis a mystery. Continue reading...

Worrying about the risk of future regret is a rubbish way to spend your time, and therefore something you’re likely to regretOne thing a lot of people tell you when you become a parent, I’ve found, is that you should savour the early months and years, because they’re over so quickly. Most of them mean well, I think, except for a minority who just enjoy trying to scare new parents about what’s coming next. But it’s still unhelpful advice if you’re the kind of person, like me, for whom it just triggers a fusillade of self-conscious questions: am I savouring things enough? What if I’m not? Will I regret it later? This mindset is, needless to say, incompatible with actually savouring time with my son, which was probably what I was doing immediately before you reminded me to do so. There’s a galling paradox here: focus too desperately on trying to avoid regret and you’re liable to spend a lot of time worrying about the risk of future regret, which is a rubbish way to spend your time, and therefore something you’re likely to regret. So that’s great.The point applies to any aspect of life, of course: your time on Earth is short; it’s important to use it well; and yet thinking too hard about whether you’re using it well isn’t an example of using it well. The overexamined life is not worth living. (Additionally, research suggests that the fear of future regret makes people risk-averse – so as well as wasting time worrying, they’re likely to make regrettably cautious choices.) “Fear is temporary, regret is for ever,” goes an old self-help motto, intended to motivate timid souls to push past their anxieties. But it works only by harnessing a different fear – the fear that on your deathbed, you’ll wish you’d been bolder. Which isn’t much of an improvement: perhaps you’ll have a more exciting life, but you’ll still be spending it scared. Continue reading...

Prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers have doubled from 12m to 24m in past decade, NHS Digital figures reveal

I really hate running, but for various, doubtless misguided reasons, I’m currently training to run a 10K charity race. Needless to say it’s awful: I’m slow and overweight; during training I look like a tomato on the verge of explosion and would do almost anything to make it all stop. However, one thing I do enjoy is a good swear. So imagine my joy at finding that introducing a bit of swearing into my training could actually help boost my performance. Researchers at Keele have confirmed that in cycling and hand-grip tests, people who repeated a swear word performed more strongly than those repeating a neutral word. Now to find a child-free park to run/swear in. Sadly the “exercise pill” that scientists believe could deliver the benefits of fitness in tablet form isn’t going to be ready in time for my race, so running and swearing it is for now. Some of you have been swearing for very different reasons: “Dark Knight employees” are on the rise, a new study claims. These workplace vigilantes are keen to report colleagues for minor misdemeanours – and while a minor irritant for some, they can be a costly issue for organisations. And finally, climate sceptics are more than a minor irritant, what with the fate of the planet being at stake, but at least one argument has now been laid to rest. An apparent ‘hiatus’ in global warming from 1998 to 2012 has repeatedly been cited by climate sceptics as a sign that the climate is less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought – or even that global warming has stopped. A new study rejects this view, and suggests that there was ultimately no meaningful deviation between what climate models predicted and what was observed. The real take-home is that the science needs to be better communicated – and that it’s time to stop debating and start acting. Continue reading...

Changes in diet are vital to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation caused by the world’s growing appetite for meat, say scientistsInsects and imitation meat are the best alternatives to real meat in tackling the huge and growing environmental impact of livestock on the planet, new research has shown.

We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedyAfter 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink in.

This weekend, with technological help, three runners will try to break the two-hour marathon barrier. This is a good time to ask who technology is for

Trials show patch significantly increases chances of survival when rapidly applied by paramedics during journey to hospitalA skin patch costing as little as 39p could revolutionise stroke treatment, significantly increasing the chances of survival, researchers have found.The patch contains glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), which lowers blood pressure and opens up blood vessels, helping reduce the damage caused in the immediate minutes and hours following a stroke. Continue reading...

Repeating profanities during tasks including cycling and a hand-grip test boosted performance, researchers sayIt isn’t big and it isn’t clever. But the benefits, known to anyone who has moved home, climbed a mountain, or pushed a broken-down car, have finally been confirmed: according to psychologists, swearing makes you stronger.The upside of letting profanities fly emerged from a series of experiments with people who repeated either a swear word or a neutral word as they pounded away on an exercise bike, or performed a simple hand-grip test.

Human noises are often 10 times that of background levels, impairing our enjoyment of natural parks and impacting animal behaviour, scientists have foundThe sounds of the natural world are being overwhelmed by the blare of human activity, even in protected wildlife areas, new research has revealed.The racket is not only harming people’s enjoyment of natural havens, which are known to have significant benefits for both physical and mental health, but it is also affecting wildlife, with animals less able to escape predators and birds less able to find mates. Continue reading...

Researchers behind study, which may have helped cement case for banning microbeads, found guilty of scientific misconductA landmark paper claiming to show the devastating impact of microplastics on fish has been retracted after an investigation found the authors guilty of scientific misconduct.The study, published in the prestigious journal Science, claimed that fish became “smaller, slower and more stupid” when exposed to tiny plastic fragments in the marine environment. It also suggested that perch larvae favour eating plastic over their natural prey “like teenagers eating junk food”. Continue reading...

My brother Richard Darrah, who has died from cancer aged 67, was a well-known experimental archaeologist who specialised in ancient wood and the way it was worked. He carried out some spectacular archaeological reconstructions.Richard was born in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, eldest of three sons of John, a businessman, and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Smith). Both our parents were interested in archaeology and prehistory; John was the author of The Real Camelot: Paganism and the Arthurian Romances (1981). Continue reading...

Art dealer Oliver Hoare curates collection of curious relics with bizarre backstories – including King James II’s pomanderThe art dealer Oliver Hoare believes in unicorns and has gathered a wealth of material and documentary evidence at an exhibition that he believes will convince any sceptic.Related: Extinct 'Siberian unicorn' may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests Continue reading...

Pharmaceutical firm says it will offer palbociclib to patients while regulator rules on whether it should be available on NHSA drug described as one of the most important advances in treating breast cancer in the past 20 years is to be given to women in the UK for free while the medicines regulator decides whether it should be available on the NHS.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s provisional decision in February that palbociclib should not be routinely funded on the NHS in England was decried by patients but its final appraisal has been paused for the drug manufacturer Pfizer to present further clinical data. Continue reading...

Self-appointed enforcers, keen to report colleagues for misdemeanours, are a common – and potentially costly – issue for organisations, survey findsThey are the Dark Knights of the office: lone vigilantes who police the workplace, ever watchful for heinous crimes that cannot go unpunished. Woe to those who step out of line and return from break two minutes late, leave food in the office fridge too long and fail to refill the photocopier.More famous for populating Wild West gangs, superhero movies and the New York subway, vigilantes are now found in all corners of professional life, a new survey has found. Over the course of their careers, more than half the people surveyed had experienced at least one “Dark Knight employee”, as researchers dubbed them, while 18% said they still worked with one.

From a masked Tokyo commuter in a crush to the plastic particles killing our oceans, the former UN secretary-general hails the photographers shortlisted for tonight’s space-themed Prix Pictet prizeWe are running out of space. Fly over Africa at night and you will see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark as scrub is removed to make way for human beings. Satellite images of nocturnal Europe or America show vast areas lit up like an enormous fairground. From Shanghai to Sydney, from Moscow to Mexico City, the skylines of our major cities are no longer fixed and familiar. Where we cannot build into the sky, we construct vast chequerboards of smogbound, low-rise dwellings that stretch from one horizon to the other.Our cities expand in every direction as we fight to house a population that is growing at the rate of 200,000 each day. That adds up to a headcount the size of Germany every year. To feed this growing number requires ever more land to farm: each year, more than 150,000 square kilometres of natural forest are lost to agricultural or urban development. Continue reading...

Palaeontologists have found a new mammal called Wareolestes rex - ‘Ware’s brigand king’ – which scampered across the Isle of Skye in the JurassicUntil now, only two mammal species were known from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland. This month, my colleagues and I added a third one to the list: Wareolestes rex. This fossil from the Isle of Skye isn’t a new species, but until now only a few of its teeth had been found in England. We now have a lower jaw, not only with permanent molar teeth, but with replacement teeth pushing up through the gumline. This confirms the little ancestor replaced its teeth like a modern mammal – and probably fed its young on milk.The history of Scottish Mesozoic mammals – the first mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs in the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous – doesn’t take long to recount. Scotland undoubtedly crawled with these little creatures, but unfortunately there are very few Mesozoic rocks in the country to tell the tale. Scottish deposits that date from these times, between 252 and 66 million years ago, are mostly marine; laid down under salt water. As I’m sure you can imagine, there weren’t a lot of small furry mammals living on the seabed, not now, nor in the Mesozoic. Continue reading...

A new book explores information design in the form of circles – from 18th-century musical scores to photographs of Jupiter Continue reading...

Tens of thousands of cases of obesity-related diseases could be prevented if the standard three-month course of weight-loss classes were extended, says study

New study finds there never was an unexpected lull in climate change but says the science community needs to communicate betterPeople don’t talk about how global warming has stopped, paused or slowed down all that much any more – three consecutive hottest years on record will tend to do that to a flaky meme.But there was a time a few years ago when you couldn’t open your news feed without being told global warming had stopped by some conservative columnist, climate science denier or one of those people who spend their waking hours writing comments on stories like this. Continue reading...

Detailed analysis rejects view that apparent slowing of global rise in temperature from 1998-2012 is evidence against man-made climate changeAn apparent hiatus in global warming that spawned a decade-long controversy has had no impact on long-term climate projections, a detailed analysis has concluded.The slower rise in temperatures from 1998 to 2012 has repeatedly been cited by climate sceptics as a sign that the climate is less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought – or even that global warming has stopped. The latest study rejects this view, suggesting that there was ultimately no meaningful deviation between what climate models predicted and what was observed. Continue reading...

Project aims to build database listing names of sick and disabled people killed under Hitler’s ‘euthanasia’ programmeGerman scientists are to begin identifying thousands of brain specimens belonging to people killed by the Nazis because they had a disability or were ill.Related: 'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on Continue reading...

This month’s Perimeter Institute public lecture is “Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space” by Janna Levin, author and professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia UniversityOn the one hand, this was expected. We know that mass bends space and time, and so when mass moves it really should cause ripples in space and time, in much the same way that a gymnast moving on the surface of a trampoline causes ripples in the cloth.

Just as placebos can have a positive effect, expectation of side-effects can have a negative one. That’s why proper doctor-patient communication is so vitalStatins are back in the news; a new study shows that media-fuelled controversy among health experts has dented public confidence in the cholesterol-lowering drugs that prevent 80,000 heart attacks and strokes every year in the UK. The benefits far outweigh the harm from rare side-effects, according to a review of the evidence in the Lancet medical journal. But 200,000 people stopped taking their statins in 2013 following six months of “disputed research and tendentious opinion” on their potential side-effects.Related: Statin side-effects only felt by those who believe in them – study Continue reading...

A survey into how different countries view ideal personal space suggests Russians like to keep things close. Could language and communal living have something to do with it?Why do Russians have no sense of personal space? A study by the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology surveyed 9,000 people from a series of countries in order to calculate an international scale of personal space. Dubbed “the space invaders”, the Russians came out of it looking either extremely needy or extremely squashed.The study was an attempt to test theories about temperature and conversation distance. Some sociologists believe warm weather brings people closer. Others say it drives them apart because of the risk of parasites and disease. The former were proved correct. (A warm climate does collapse personal space. Argentina scored very highly.) But then came the outliers. The Russians reported almost as little personal space as the Argentinians, effectively messing up the results. Continue reading...

When there’s no more room in fossil hell, do the dead walk the earth again?Now that Easter is over, we’re firmly in Halloween now right through until the end of October. So what better time to tenuously justify taking a look at some paranormal concepts in palaeontology and biology such as ghosts, zombies and, err ... Elvis. Not actual ghosts, you understand, although there is much research needed into why we don’t see ghosts of graptolites and Sinotubulites more often*.Recently, there have been a number of high-profile discoveries of species known better from fossil relative remains than living animals, and sightings of not-so-long extinct animals. It’s therefore timely to take a look at some of the horror-themed terms in palaeobiology used to described species and lineages that are apparently out of place. Continue reading...

Erica - the world’s ‘most beautiful and intelligent’ android - responds to people’s questions about her memories, superintelligence, and the future of humanitySubscribe & Review on iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & Acast, and join the discussion on Facebook and TwitterFollowing our documentary film Erica: Man Made, we gave viewers a chance to pose their own questions to Erica; the world’s “most beautiful and intelligent” android. And in this episode, we hear her (or her creator’s) thoughts on happiness, humanity, and the future of android-human relationships. Continue reading...

Wax portrait heads of historical figures captured in extraordinary detail in pioneering partnership of art and scienceAdm Lord Horatio Nelson and William Pitt the Younger have travelled together by taxi across the Thames, from their home in Westminster Abbey to St Thomas’ hospital, to have their heads run through some of the most sophisticated scanning equipment in the world in a pioneering partnership of art, conservation and science.Scanning of the wax portrait heads, made at the time of their deaths in 1805 and 1806, was performed using state-of-the-art equipment owned by Guy’s and St Thomas’, with all the scientists, curators, conservators and abbey staff involved in the project working unpaid overtime. Continue reading...

Researchers hope study will end debate around drugs, which could benefit over six million more UK patientsCommon side-effects of statins are not down to the drugs, but are instead a result of patients’ negative expectations, research suggests.Statins are typically prescribed to help lower levels of “bad cholesterol” – or low-density lipoprotein – in order to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. A recent report estimated that the drugs prevent around 80,000 such incidents a year in the UK. Continue reading...

Scientists doubt that extreme natural longevity is feasible. But if lifespan is ruled by a genetic ‘clock’, that view could changeThe grim reaper comes for everyone in the end, but sometimes he is in less of a rush. This was certainly true for Sodimedjo, an Indonesian man who died on Sunday, but whether he was the full 146 years he claimed remains doubtful – not least because his purported birthdate is 30 years before local birth records began.Related: 'Oldest human' dies in Indonesia aged 146 Continue reading...

UK research into cannabidiol (CBD) comes after surge in parents administering it to children without medical adviceBritish scientists are investigating whether a compound found in cannabis could be used to shrink brain tumours in children.The study of the effects of cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, was prompted by a growing number of parents giving it to children with a brain tumour after buying it online. The lead researcher, Prof Richard Grundy of Nottingham University’s children’s brain tumour centre, said in the last six months there had been a surge in parents administering it without medical advice in the belief it might help. Continue reading...

My brother, Stephen Jeffcoate, who has died aged 77, was a former professor of biochemical endocrinology at the Chelsea Hospital for Women in London.Steve was the eldest of four sons born to a Liverpool gynaecologist, Professor Sir Norman Jeffcoate, and his wife, Josephine Lindsay. He went to local schools in Liverpool and later obtained first class honours in medical sciences at Cambridge University. Continue reading...

Drug could transform lives of those who are unable to exercise because of obesity or serious physical disability, mouse study suggestsFor those who cannot exercise, it could be the answer: rather than spending hours in the gym, the benefits of fitness training could be delivered in a tablet.The prospect of an “exercise pill” might be music to the ears of couch potatoes, long-distance truck drivers and stressed-out office workers, but researchers believe it could transform the lives of people who are unable to exercise because of obesity or serious physical disabilities.

We’re biologically wired to find joy in others’ misfortunes. But this is now the ‘spitegeist’ – and a core characteristic of populist politics around the worldEven Mother Teresa would have felt a glimmer of glee. Pretty much everyone else did. Over the weekend the internet erupted into spasms of schadenfreude when a luxury music festival descended into what a lawsuit described as closer to The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies.The inaugural Fyre festival had promised, not just an edgy approach to vowels, but an indulgent, Instagram-worthy experience. Tickets cost between $1,000 and $125,000 (£845-£105,000) depending on how gullible you were; in exchange, you were supposed to get meals cooked by celebrity-chefs, luxurious accommodation, live music, and the chance to mingle with models and “influencers” on an island in the Bahamas. As you’re probably aware from the extensive coverage the Fyre fiasco has garnered in the past few days, none of that transpired. When the moneyed millennials turned up they found only soggy cheese sandwiches and disaster-relief tents. Twitter was soon abuzz with the wailing of the 1% and the cackling of everyone else. Continue reading...

Science and technology show’s name to be used as umbrella for year-long partnership with institutions such as Royal SocietyThe BBC is to revive the Tomorrow’s World name for a year-long season of science and technology programmes.Fondly remembered by TV fans of a certain age, the show ran for almost 40 years on BBC1 from 1965 until it was axed in 2003. Its name is being used as an umbrella for what the BBC director general, Tony Hall, said was the “biggest scientific partnership” the corporation had ever done. Continue reading...

Lords scold government for lack of progress on small modular reactors plan, warning UK nuclear sector will suffer if firms walk awayThe government’s failure to deliver on a multimillion-pound competition to develop mini atomic power stations has hurt the nuclear sector and risks international companies walking away from the UK, a Lords committee has warned.In 2015 the then chancellor George Osborne promised £250m over five years for a nuclear research and development programme, an undisclosed sum of which was for a competition to pave the way for small modular reactors. Continue reading...

Canadian study finds taking the drugs raises chances of having a miscarriage by between 60% and 100%Many common antibiotics may double the risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, research has shown.A Canadian study has found that taking the drugs raised the chances of having a miscarriage by between 60% and 100%. Continue reading...

Participants in US study shown to even out calorie intakes beyond prescribed levels on alternating regime, leaving results barely more effective than daily calorie counting

Experiment involving theoretical financial reward in exchange for uncomfortable electric shocks on self or others reveals brain preference for less pain and lower profit