By Pat Kelly. The long-running mystery of why placebos often work may have been partly solved by a new study, which shows that our cannabinoid receptors have a “pivotal role” to play.
Inspiration vs Perspiration
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Pat Kelly. A new row has broken out between scientists on the vexatious issue of how far intelligence actually contributes to an individual’s greatness.
The Ig Nobels strike again
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Pat Kelly. This year’s Ig Nobel award winners presented the usual bizarre array of research projects and those conducting medical ‘research’ did not let their profession down.
A mammoth undertaking
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Pat Kelly. Doctors who need to induce artificial hypothermia may in future be aided by a synthetic, cold-tolerant blood protein of the woolly mammoth.
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