Most of us would shirk from wearing a serial killer's cardigan, but why? According to Professor Bruce Hood many believe that the garment is contaminated, as if that person's evil 'essence' would rub off on us. This is because we have what he calls a 'supersense', or a belief that there are energies, patterns, forces and entities operating in the world that are categorically denied by science.
Women living in rural areas are suffering as much violence as those in towns and cities but are less likely to think that it is happening in their community according to new research conducted by researchers at the University for the Women’s Institute (WI) and launched today by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI).
Scientists in Bristol have found that human foetal stem cells can effectively be used to treat back leg ischaemic ulcers in a model of type 1 diabetes.
Professor Paul Statham from the Department of Sociology is to lead a €1.4m research project that will look at how different traditions of national identity, citizenship and church-state relations in six European countries have shaped those countries’ policy efforts to incorporate Islam.
Companies that charge individuals fees to manage their debt have grown more than threefold in the last 10 years, according to an independent review of the fee-charging debt-management industry conducted by Sharon Collard of the University's Personal Finance Research Centre on behalf of the Money Advice Trust.
Dementia research in Bristol has received a major boost thanks to a grant of £320k. The funding will enable researchers at the University of Bristol to carry out detailed experimental investigations of how electrical signals in brain circuits are disturbed by tauopathy — an important pathological hallmark seen in the brains of sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.
A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week [1 July] at an international workshop looking at how robots can help us examine the workings of the brain.
Suggestive evidence points to the possibility that children who have a diet high in calcium and who consume dairy products may have a lower mortality rate than those who don’t, according to a study by researchers in Bristol and Brisbane, published in the journal Heart.
Researchers have discovered that the enzyme, endothelin converting enzyme-2 (ECE-2), may cause the decrease in blood flow in the brain seen in Alzheimer’s disease and contribute to progression of the disease.
This study confirmed a strong relationship between rising temperatures and rising sea level.
