Night shifts may be more disruptive to women than men, brain study suggests
Apr 19, 2016 06:43 am UTC| Health
We all appreciate the importance of getting enough sleep. Not doing so affects our ability to function effectively, something that becomes painfully apparent during shift-work, especially night shifts. Now research...
Apr 19, 2016 04:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
The misuse or abuse of pharmaceutical pain medications usually opioids has received increasing media attention recently. The focus of such news items has largely been on people who transition from oral use of medication...
How to start nudging people to drink less alcohol
Apr 19, 2016 04:21 am UTC| Health
Millions of pounds is spent each year to bombard us with information on the risks of alcohol. But do such campaigns work? Our research shows that some simple tweaks to how the message is delivered by applying findings...
Why the baby brain can learn two languages at the same time
Apr 18, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Health
Any adult who has attempted to learn a foreign language can attest to how difficult and confusing it can be. So when a three-year-old growing up in a bilingual household inserts Spanish words into his English sentences,...
Why the Internet isn't making us smarter – and how to fight back
Apr 18, 2016 08:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star Game over a new anti-LGBT law in North Carolina...
Reducing stress at work is a walk in the park
Apr 18, 2016 08:07 am UTC| Health
The sky is blue and you are walking through a park, speaking with a colleague, discussing a new project. You feel energised, puffing slightly as your pace speeds up with the excitement of tossing around ideas as you walk...
Vaccination objection rates aren't skyrocketing
Apr 18, 2016 08:04 am UTC| Health
There has always been a group of people who reject vaccination. They were seen 200 years ago when Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine and they persist today. But, in recent years, commentators have lamented the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight