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22 Mar 2016: said. The paper is based on four separate but related experimental tests on hundreds of people, including undergraduate students as well as non-students. ... In one test, students were told that their job prospects were easier (prompting downward

29 Mar 2016: And theatre director and academic Zoe Svendsen and journalist and economist Paul Mason will explore the theatricality of capitalism through examining what an economic analysis of Shakespeare’s plays might tell

29 Feb 2016: These five common variants that we have identified will contribute to an eventual predictive test for breast cancer risk, and for determining the risk of the particular subtype of breast cancer,

4 May 2016: The term ‘nature writing’ didn’t exist in the 1940s when Nan Shepherd wrote The Living Mountain, a book in which she describes exploring the Cairngorm

29 Dec 2016: The Cambridge team also conducted a litmus test of language use in science.

3 Oct 2016: time. Jon Crowcroft and John Thompson. New information and communication technologies are having a profound impact on many aspects of social, political and economic life, raising important new issues of social

9 Feb 2016: Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido. As in economics, there is a law of diminishing returns in neuroscience – doubling the investment going in doesn’t equal double the performance coming out.

3 Aug 2016: Monetary stimulus can do little to stimulate these. Low interest rates may stimulate private sector investment in normal times, but such investment is discouraged by economic and financial uncertainty. ... The Brexit vote has led to a new government and

20 Jan 2016: This would extend the history of the same underlying socio-economic conditions that characterise other instances of early warfare: a more settled, materially richer way of life.

29 Feb 2016: Breaking a new path for growth. More effective and efficient global economic and financial governance. ... status as home to one in five of the world’s people and a growing economic power.

25 Feb 2016: Once you’re abstinent, the compulsivity or habits also improve. Now that we have this test we can start to cut across other addictions – is there an underlying neural process shared

21 Jun 2016: Researchers are calling for the end to an era of confusion and alarm about children's heart surgery statistics by launching an innovative communication tool

4 Aug 2016: as measured using a standard test similar to an IQ test.

25 Jan 2016: for patient benefit and economic return.”.

8 Nov 2016: Cancer immunotherapies involve activating a patient’s immune cells to recognise and destroy cancer cells. They have shown great promise in some cancers, but so

11 May 2016: Low educational attainment is commonly associated with lacking behavioural and economic resources, such as cooking skills, food and nutrition knowledge, adequate cooking equipment and a shopping budget that affords healthy purchases, ... The study was

15 Sep 2016: They were asked to rate how good the GP was at various measures: giving sufficient time and listening to the patient in the the film, explaining the tests and treatment, involving

7 Mar 2016: They bear the brunt of Islamophobia, now increasingly apparent in civil society (especially against women), as well as the social and economic disadvantage caused by high unemployment.

3 May 2016: Endometrial cancer affects the lining of the uterus. It is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in UK women, with around 9,000 new cases being diagnosed

8 Nov 2016: Over the past three years, a project jointly funded by the UK Department for International Development, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, has investigated the ... Access is determined by a range of

26 Oct 2016: In order to protect us from invading viruses and bacteria, and from internal threats such as malignant tumour cells, our immune system employs an army of

12 Aug 2016: Not only did they flirt and dance – and infuriate their husbands with demands for the latest fashions – but they exerted genuine political and economic power.

22 Nov 2016: We’ve been carrying out research into local responses to national economic and political crises. ... Our study compared charitable programmes and services, interfaith collaborations and economic initiatives across four capital cities of Europe: London,

25 Apr 2016: Not only was this a painful illness, it had grave economic consequences. ... A range of social, economic and political factors complicated the delivery of a comprehensive vaccination programme.

15 Mar 2016: Rather than addressing the root causes of Germany’s social and economic problems, they blame migrants for everything that is going wrong. ... Baden-Wuerttemberg is considered one of Europe’s economic powerhouses, and has the lowest unemployment rate

29 Sep 2016: to understand the social, economic and cultural factors that might support or prevent people being able to keep to this dietary pattern in the UK.”.

28 Oct 2016: Pregnant mothers – particularly older mothers, whose offspring are at greatest risk of developing such disorders – are offered tests to predict the likelihood of genetic abnormalities.

4 Apr 2016: Any new approach to measuring crime must pass a three-pronged test, says Sherman: cost, reliability and democracy (“reflecting the will of the people”).

19 May 2016: App-based ride company Uber has been battling the “establishment” around the world, from traditional black taxi drivers in London to regulators in Australia.

15 Sep 2016: Now, in the paper published in Nature Communications, the Cambridge researchers have gone one stage further, to test the latest predictions of what should happen at high energies, where the original

19 Jan 2016: The harder the material, the larger the value. The Vickers hardness test uses a square-based pyramid diamond tip to make the indent. ... Unfortunately w-BN is extremely rare in nature and difficult to produce in sufficient quantities to properly test

11 Jul 2016: In 1967 the British government decided to devalue sterling after several years of poor economic performance, mirroring the declining role of Britain in the world. ... 30%. The world order had changed after the war and the US had a stronger economic

28 Oct 2016: Our researchers have used Batten disease sheep to validate behavioural tests which will now be used to investigate Huntington’s disease, a more common, but equally devastating disease.

22 Mar 2016: From increased job prospects and economic growth to international relations and diplomacy, there are many clear benefits to multilingualism, yet the strong presence of diverse languages within the UK is often

22 Jul 2016: With the help of honey-hunters from the local Yao community, Spottiswoode carried out controlled experiments in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve to test whether the birds were able to distinguish ... Back in Africa, we’re fascinated by the

11 Oct 2016: For example, based on indirect evidence in one geographical region in the UK, the introduction of faecal occult blood test in the UK is likely to have reduced the proportion of

24 Feb 2016: assesses biophysical and socio-economic consequences of sea level rise and socio-economic development, taking into account coastal erosion, coastal flooding, wetland change and salinity intrusion.

4 Oct 2016: Carrick Therapeutics Ltd, a company which is developing new treatments for the most aggressive and resistant forms of cancer, launched today having secured $95

8 Aug 2016: So the uncertainty over the status of non-UK nationals from the EU and European Economic Area is especially disquieting. ... Here is a challenge that the government needs to meet squarely head on if it values national research excellence and its

9 May 2016: To conclusively test this hypothesis, researchers would need to follow individual birds between their breeding and non-breeding grounds and monitor changes to their song and their breeding success.

20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk

28 Oct 2016: and food-sharing in jackdaws, to tests of what jays and rooks understand about tools.

18 May 2016: It was written within the tradition of ‘stadial’ theories of economic development; these ‘universal histories’ sought to understand all cultures in all places and times.

7 Oct 2016: the University of East Anglia, the University of Sheffield and the University of Exeter, and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

13 Oct 2016: Borrowing a technique widely used in biomolecular simulations, called the Multistate Bennett Acceptance Ratio, they developed a method which systematically tests the limits of one particular basin of attraction. ... To test this, the team modelled an

23 May 2016: economic and ethical considerations associated with the public funding of new drugs.

8 Jul 2016: Our skin is kept healthy by a constant turnover, with dying skin cells being shed and replaced by new cells. The process is maintained by ‘progenitor’ cells –

21 Sep 2016: A new study of human genomic diversity suggests there may have in fact been two successful dispersals out of Africa, and that a “trace” of the earlier of these

7 Mar 2016: The system could help machines understand language more effectively. In tests against commercial crossword-solving software, the system, designed by researchers from the UK, US and Canada, was more accurate at

4 Feb 2016: The idea that different populations of cells compete within the body, with winners and losers, was discovered in the 1970s and is thought to be a ‘quality