Rich countries banned deadly lead pigments years ago. So how come they export 28,000 tonnes a year to poorer countries, asks campaigner Perry Gottesfeld
Efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine may have stalled, but the research has revealed an antibody that protects against several lethal flu strains
With neuroscience developing so fast, two books demonstrate the perils of putting too much or too little faith in brain scanners capturing human nature
Our inner speech turns out to shape our thoughts and decisions in more ways than you might have imagined, says psychologist Charles Fernyhough (full text available to subscribers)
A protein called c-FLIP-R is critical to immune cell survival: If this molecule is missing, the cells kill themselves -- and are thus no longer able to perform their job fighting off invaders.
