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Appliance of Science: “There’s a strong correlation between comedy and...
Matt Parker. Credit: Steve Ullathorne. There has been a groundswell of geeky comedy over the last few years. From the Uncaged Monkeys tour, which sold over 35 000 tickets, to the permanently sold-out...
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Focus on stroke: Predicting and preventing stroke
There will be about 150 000 strokes in the UK in 2012, among a population of 62 million. Crude arithmetic suggests your chance of having a stroke this year is, therefore, 0.24 per cent. But a variety...
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Focus on stroke: Shah Ebrahim – Changing states of risk
A geriatrician and stroke specialist by training, Professor Shah Ebrahim researches risk factors for cardiovascular disease and has a particular interest in prevention strategies. He splits his time...
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Focus on stroke: How stroke affects the brain
A stroke can cause debilitating brain damage, costing patients control of their limbs, their ability to use language and other cognitive skills. Moheb Costandi meets the researchers who are gaining a...
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Focus on stroke: The loss of language
In this short film, we meet Tess and Michael, two people who suddenly found themselves robbed of the ability to talk following a stroke. Thanks to the brain’s remarkable ability to regain function,...
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Focus on stroke: The tangled knot of dementia and stroke
For decades, stroke and dementia were treated quite separately in the UK, both clinically and in research, despite both being diseases of the brain. Dementia – especially Alzheimer’s disease – had...
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Focus on stroke: Restructuring the brain
The Beano (like The Beezer before it) hypothesises that our perceptions and actions are managed by five little men living in five separate rooms in our skulls. Although modern neuroscience has yet to...
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Focus on stroke: Research in rehab
Acute emergency treatment for the loss of oxygen to parts of the brain as a result of a stroke can be standardised – our brains respond in a certain way, and the same treatments will have similar...
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Focus on Stroke
It’s estimated to cost the economy £8 billion per year in England. It causes more than 50 000 deaths every year in the UK and leaves hundreds of thousands more people disabled. A quarter of cases occur...
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Appliance of Science: “Artists need to put themselves into their art”
Richard Tyrone Jones. Credit: Andrew Crowe. My name is Richard Tyrone Jones. I have heart failure, and for the last year I’ve been developing a solo show talking about how and why this happened –...
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Analysing the Nazi mind
Rudolf Hess as a child A new book by Professor Daniel Pick shines a light on a neglected aspect of the Allies’ work to win the War. Whether it’s collecting scrap metal, living with rationing or the...
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Piano plague in D minor
Why would 19th-century doctors want to ban piano lessons for girls? Did they truly believe that learning to play music could cause sexual and neurotic disorders? Or were there sociological reasons for...
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Food allergy and hyperactivity: histories of medical controversy
The journey of a new medical concept from radical theory to mainstream medicine is often dogged by controversy. Dr Matthew Smith (left) argues that such controversies are fuelled by simplistic,...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 1): Come fly with me
For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics. But as biological understanding and...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 2): Fly on the wall
Drosophila: the model model organism; the humble fruit fly with a noble (not to mention Nobel) place in the history of science. Having learned about its importance in genetics and developmental...
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Nuts and bolts: Diamond synchrotron
Click for the full diagram [PDF]Light is not a resource you would expect to find in short supply. However, the intense beams of electromagnetic radiation required for a wide range of experimental...
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Beyond the asylum: Looking back on mental health
Professor Barbara Taylor – a historian at Queen Mary, University of London – is best known for her work on the history of feminism. But in writing a new book to be published next year, she has been...
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Feature: deceptive appearances – engineering cartilage
An illustration of the changes in articular cartilage that occur in osteoarthritis. Credit: Medical Art Service, Munich, Wellcome Images. The tiny area of uncertainty that is inevitably left by...
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Feature: The biggest poisoning in history
One of the more bitter ironies of human existence is the way the best of our intentions can fall foul of Murphy’s Law and wind up as paving stones on the proverbial road to hell. A recent, devastating...
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The need to know: deciphering developmental disorders
The Oakes family Life can be challenging for the families of children with developmental disorders. About 1 in 1000 babies are born with an error in their genetic make-up that causes delays in their...
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