Ever wonder what would happen if you were left alone in the dark for days? This is exactly what six volunteers have done for a BBC Horizon documentary. The experiment is set out to determine whether this technique, known as sensory deprivation, makes people more suggestible. For two days, psychologist Ian Robbins has monitored six […]
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Does sensory deprivation make people more suggestible?
Published January 27th, 2008 in Science, Body & Mind and Human World. 2 CommentsCelebrities urged to check scientific claims
Published January 8th, 2008 in Science and Body & Mind. 2 CommentsNext time you see a celebrity giving advice about medical treatments or backing scientific research and campaigns, think twice before following his or her advice.
Little scientific awareness on the part of many stars and their quite often nonsense scientific claims has led the educational charity “Sense About Science” to launch a campaign urging celebrities […]
Excess weight linked to cancer in women
Published November 11th, 2007 in Science and Body & Mind. 2 CommentsLast week Earth & Sky’s Executive Producer, Deborah Byrd, addressed in her blog a report that warned of the increased risk of cancer linked to excess weight.
This week a new study published online by the British Medical Association and the BBC has reported that obesity (BMI above 29.9) and overweight (BMI between 24.9 and 30.0) […]
New discovery raises hopes for malaria treatment
Published October 31st, 2007 in Science, Innovation, Body & Mind and Human World. 3 Comments A new finding could bring scientists one step closer to a possible treatment for malaria, a disease that claims most lives in third world countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
The work has been reported by a team of researchers at Edinburgh University, in the US, Mali and Kenya who studied a population of 567 African […]
A potential malaria vaccine by 2010
Published October 17th, 2007 in Science, Innovation and Body & Mind. 1 CommentSpain’s Pedro Alonso leads a team of experts currently working on a vaccine in the war against malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes that kills more than a million people each year.
Dr. Alonso lives and works in Mozambique, a region where Malaria is widespread. In 1996, he founded the Manhiça Health Research Center located […]