What makes a scream alarming? - Infectious Thoughts
Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 23, 2015 •
Researchers find screams occupy a special auditory space and cut straight to the parts of the human brain that process fear and danger. Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 23, 2015 •
Researchers find screams occupy a special auditory space and cut straight to the parts of the human brain that process fear and danger. Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 22, 2015 •
How 'untrustworthy' your face looks could determine your prison sentence. Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 01, 2015 •
Pheromones aren't just about sex. They can kill superbugs too! … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Oct 01, 2014 •
In a press conference earlier today, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that the US has diagnosed its first case of Ebola, in a man who travelled from Liberia to Dallas, Texas, on the 20th of September. The man was asymptomatic while in transit and only developed symptoms around the 24th of September. He sought medical help … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Nov 19, 2013 •
One of the big news stories today was about the death of Brian Pool, who according to Stuff’s Michelle Duff is “believed to be New Zealand’s first victim of an aggressive superbug, caught while he was overseas, that is resistant to every type of antibiotic.” One of the doctors who treated him, clinical microbiologist … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 27, 2013 •
What is the value of blue-skies research? This is a question often asked by politicians and the public. Why should public money be spent funding science that seems to have no obvious benefit beyond generating scientific knowledge? The simple answer is that it can be almost impossible to predict what new avenues that scientific knowledge will open up. Take … Read More