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Mirror leads way as Sunday tabloids enjoy August circulation rise

06.09.2013 17:46
The Sunday Mirror was the best- performing title in the Sunday market in August, increasing circulation by nearly 2% month- on-month. Trinity Mirror's red-top averaged 1,063,293 sales a week, up 1.72% on July, in a month when most of the Sunday tabloids enjoyed small circulation increases. Another...

How did obesity become such catnip for news?

06.09.2013 17:39
The gut microbes of the slim will, if transferred to the obese, have a slimming effect – or at least, they will in mice, a twin study has found (twin women, whose microbes were transferred to mice. Not twin mice.) Because mice are habitually copraphagic (they eat each other's shit), this amounts...

Nepal to name peaks after Everest pioneers Hillary, Tenzing

06.09.2013 17:31
Nepal plans to name two Himalayan peaks after pioneering Mount Everest climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a senior hiking official said, in a move designed to boost tourism in the beautiful but desperately poor country. New Zealander Hillary and his Nepali guide Tenzing made it to the...

Miniature brains grown in test tubes – a new path for neuroscience?

31.08.2013 23:53
Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. Just a few millimetres across,

Earth lacked vital chemicals for origin of life, claims geochemist. We're all Martians

31.08.2013 23:47
Evidence is mounting that life on Earth may have started on Mars. A leading scientist has claimed that one particular element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available on the surface of the red planet. Professor Steven Benner, a geochemist, has argued that...

What do we really know about the effects of screen time on mental health?

31.08.2013 23:44
Public Health England this week announced that too much time in front of TV and computer screens is causing increasing psychological problems, such as depression and anxiety, in children. The report, which can be found here, suggests that the amount of time spent playing computer games...

Whole fruits protect against diabetes, but juice is risk factor, say researchers

31.08.2013 23:42
Eating blueberries, grapes, apples and pears cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes but drinking fruit juice can increase it, a large study has found. Researchers including a team from Harvard School of Public Health in the US examined whether certain fruits impact on type 2 diabetes, which affects more...

Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists

31.08.2013 23:37
Poor people spend so much mental energy on the immediate problems of paying bills and cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important tasks, including education, training or managing their time, suggests research published on Thursday. The cognitive...

If we're all Martians now, who are the aliens?

31.08.2013 23:27
'The evidence seems to be building that we are all actually Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock," Prof Steven Benner told the Goldschmidt meeting, this week's international scientific convention in Florence. The theory that microbes from Mars "infected" the Earth...

The ups and downs of porn: sexism, relationships and sexual aggression

31.08.2013 23:24
David Cameron's repeated initiatives to regulate access to online pornography reflect an ongoing moral panic that society as we know it is being torn apart by smut. Yet this contrasts sharply with apparently widespread enjoyment and consumption of sexually explicit material. Actual statistics on...
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