A Toronto patient has become the second known person to have acquired synesthesia as a result of a brain injury, in this case a stroke.  Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which people…

Psychotherapy done over the Internet work is just as effective as face-to-face psychotherapy according to a new paper. The authors from the University of Zurich assumed that the two forms of…

A study of mortality and fertility patterns using seven species of wild primates (apes, monkeys etc.) compared with similar data from hunter-gatherer humans found that menopause sets humans apart…

Positive psychology is so powerful it can change gene expression, according to a paper in PNAS. A good state of mind, your happiness levels, affect your genes, say academics in psychoneuroimmunology…

Exoplanets - planets around stars other than the sun - were discovered almost 20 years ago,but for the first time, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.…

In what the authors are calling perhaps the most comprehensive and definitive effort to date, zoologists say they have explained the processes that drove male mammals to adopt social monogamy as a…

There's still no free lunch. Finite budgets based on taxes that give equal treatment to everyone aren't really resulting in equal quality. Instead, most ward nurses in NHS hospitals say they are…

Most mammals aren't monogamous, nor are most anything except birds, where it happens in about 90% of cases.  It's actually quite rare in mammals (5%), so why did it evolve? Was it to be better…

If you talk to someone who knows food but not science, it won't be long before some jab at Monsanto issues forth. And if you persist in discussing biology, it really won't be long before you get…

New biological insecticides, which make use of “entomopathogenic” viruses that are harmful to insects, have emerged in recent years. The big advantage versus regular pesticides is that they are…