The Immune Cell, the Neutrophil – the Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?
By Kathryn Higgins Throughout our lifetime our bodies sustain infections and injuries, and the body deals with them by mediating an inflammatory response. This happens by cells within our blood...
View ArticleThe dangers of self-report
A common methodology in behavioural science is to use self-report questionnaires to gather data. Data from these questionnaire can be used to identify relationships between scores on the variable(s)...
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Can a neuroscientist read your mind?
Are the contents of your mind really 'confidential' or will your thoughts one day be accessible to others? Media reports into recent research have claimed that neuroscientists are now effectively able...
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The addicted brain
Addictive behaviours include, but are not limited to, the abuse of drugs If you’ve got the money honey, we’ve got your disease — Guns n’ Roses: Welcome to the Jungle One of the key challenges of...
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Consciousness In The Brain
You see, but you do not observe… A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle Can neuroscience provide an explanation as to how the brain enables us to consciously...
View ArticleScience in British Sign Language – Summer Lecture
Science Brainwaves is proud to announce the details of our first summer lecture: Science in British Sign Language We are delighted to welcome Brainy and Brawny, aka Dr Audrey Cameron and Gary Quinn,...
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How delusions occur, and why they may be widespread!
Why do many people believe that Crop Circles are created by alien life forms? It is a common occurrence to come across people who believe things that seem extraordinary, and who maintain that belief...
View ArticleWant to lie convincingly? Get practicing!
Lying, the deliberate attempt to mislead someone, is a processes that we all engage in at some time or another. Indeed research has found that the average person lies at least once a day, suggesting...
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Insights into the beginnings of microbiology
Over the holidays I rediscovered a book I picked up in an antique shop a year or so ago called “Milestones in Microbiology”. I had assumed it was going to be a standard history book with lots of dates...
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Countdown to the British Science Festival!
Oddly, this is the first year I’ve considered going to the British Science Festival. It’s not that I wouldn’t have enjoyed it before, it just never occurred to me to go! Anyway, this year with my...
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The painful truth: Magnetic bracelets, the placebo effect & analgesia
Despite the widespread availability of evidence-based medicine in the western world, ‘alternative medicines’ are still commonly used. Such medicines are usually inspired by pre-scientific medical...
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Why are we ‘Looking for Aliens’?
The idea that there might be alien life elsewhere in the universe has captured the imaginations of generations of scientists, writers, artists and….well pretty much everyone! Science Brainwaves has a...
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A day in the life of a Science Brainwaves volunteer!
A few weeks ago I jumped in at the deep end with my first science outreach volunteering event. I found out about the opportunity via an email sent out by Science Brainwaves – the task: a *whole day* of...
View ArticleSome sense in sensory deprivation
How would you cope if you couldn’t hear, see or feel anything? How do sensory systems react when they have no information to process? Such questions may seem rather bizarre, but they are in fact the...
View ArticleWetlands
As I looked upon the Old Moor Centre for the first time, I realised I had never seen a real wetland before. My eyes became the recipients of a fantastic scene which consisted of a deep brown lake,...
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