No evidence that enrichment activities encourage pupils to study STEM A-levels

There is no evidence to suggest enrichment activities run to interest pupils in science, technology, engineering…

Twitter used to track the flu in real time

An international team has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the seasonal…

Fentanyl can sicken first responders: Possible solution?

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50 times more potent than heroin. Even a tiny amount inhaled…

Larger swaths of tropical forest being lost to commercial agriculture

Larger patches of tropical forest are being cleared in recent years to make way for industrial-scale…

The first microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers

Recent reports reveal there are more than 114,000,000 published academic papers. Finding ways to efficiently summarize…

Doctors should be paid by salary, not fee-for-service, argue behavioral economists

Researchers outline the problems associated with the fee-for-service arrangements that most doctors currently operate under. Such…

Could there be a ‘social vaccine’ for malaria?

Malaria is a global killer and a world health concern. But while millions of dollars are…

Nearly one in three drugs found to have safety concerns after FDA approval

Researchers have found that for drugs approved between 2001 and 2010, nearly 1 in 3 had…

Half of all seniors who went to doctor for common cold prescribed unnecessary antibiotics

Nearly one in two seniors in Ontario who visited a family doctor for a non-bacterial infection…

Aging gracefully in the rainforest

Researchers have synthesize over 15 years of theoretical and empirical findings from long-term study of the…