While opinion polls suggest that most people in Britain are worried about climate change, there is little sign of action on their part.  Why?

By Julia Stephenson 

One of the main reasons for this is that people feel it won't make a difference to the bigger, global picture.  With China, for example, overtaking the USA as the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, what’s the point of one person using energy-efficient light bulbs or half-filling their kettle?

The power of foods in the fight against cancer, such as broccoli and red wine, are gaining credibility with the medical profession.

Many doctors still believe that cancer can only be cured with conventional medical treatment. However, in a new book, an American doctor tells the story of his own battle with the disease; and how he researched the latest scientific evidence to compile a range of diet and lifestyle changes to create what he calls 'an anti-cancer biology'.

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A joke between female scientists led to some ground-breaking research, explains Gale Berkowitz

The discovery that women respond to stress differently than men was made in a classic 'aha' moment shared by two women scientists who were talking one day in a lab at UCLA.

Two aliens landed in the Arizona desert near a gas station that was closed for the night. They approached one of the gas pumps and the younger alien addressed it saying, 'Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Take us to your leader!'

The advantage of a book over a computer screen is that you can take it to bed with you.

Books inform, entertain, edify, divert, thrill, enlighten and inspire. Crammed between their covers we find great truths, great lies and enthralling fantasy. As Somerset Maugham said, ‘To acquire the habit of reading is to construct yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.’

The average brain is now reckoned to have forty times the processing capacity of a typical desktop computer.

Just be thankful that you don't have to lug that lot down to the airport.  But neuroscientists have now made an import breakthrough in a new mathematical model of the brain.