How are homeopathic products used in childhood?
Recent research finds that 11.8 per cent of children participating in the Children of the 90s study have used a homeopathic product at least once in their early years.
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Sick of love
Modern lovers could learn a thing or two from their Elizabethan counterparts about the pains and pleasures of frustrated passion, according to a new book by Dr Lesel Dawson, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol.
Safer drinking water for millions
Aquatest, the world’s first low-cost, easy-to-use diagnostic tool that will give a clear, reliable indication of water quality.
The conservation of medieval mosaics
Professor Geoff Allen of The Interface Analysis Centre has recently been investigating techniques that might help to restore the beautiful mosaics of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice.
Unravelling our heritage
Over the past decade, Dr Joshua Pollard from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology has co-directed two projects at the Neolithic monument complexes of Avebury and Stonehenge.
A potted history of milk
Humans were using cattle for milk more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
What use to a troubled world is the work of a Faculty of Arts?
This was the question addressed in the third Annual BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) debate which took place on Wednesday 30 April.
Kinship care: A family commitment
When children in care are placed with relatives or friends, do they do better or worse than children placed with unrelated foster carers – or do kinship carers look after less troubled children in the first place? In the first major study of kinship care in England, Elaine Farmer of the School for Policy Studies, addresses these questions.
The Tree of Flowering Plants
Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the Botanic Garden, explains how over the past 20 years there has been a revolution in the plant world.
Will our future brains be smaller?
New research from the University of Bristol has shown that the evolutionary pressures arising from the older, faster, but less accurate, part of the brain may have shaped the more recent development of the slower-acting but more precise cortex, found in humans and higher animals.