Curcumin the Wonder Drug: Fact or Fiction?
Sarah Neidler has a closer look at curcumin’s biomedical properties and explains why it may not be suitable as a therapeutic agent – although often called a wonder drug.
Is Your Messy Kitchen Giving You the Munchies?
Chaotic environments such as messy kitchens can cause stress, which can then lead us to over-snack on calorific treats – twice as many cookies according to this study!
What is a Number?
There’s a large range of ways to depict any number, but none of these depictions answers the question: what is the fundamental nature of a number?
Novel Treatment for Incurable Prader-Willi Syndrome
Prader-Willi syndrome is a devastating genetic disease with no treatment. But is a cure as simple as turning the relevant genes back on?
The Plight of the Tusked Elephant
Witness “natural” selection as ivory poaching causes an evolutionary change in African elephants, as increasing numbers are born without tusks.
Is Viagra a Male Contraceptive?
Lauren Taylor delves into the stimulating debate that Viagra could be a contraceptive.
Amphibian Murder Mystery
Frogs and other amphibians are being driven to extinction by a deadly fungus. So how does the fungus survive and continue to spread? Could crayfish be the key?
The Paradox of Missing Antimatter
Why are we here? Okay, that is a uselessly vague question; let me rephrase. Under what
mechanism did the stars, planets, life, and all that come about?
