Topic: Imperial College London

Keen video-gamers' brains may reward them more

LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend ...

Scientists identify 'thinness' genes

Scientists have discovered a genetic cause of extreme thinness that can lead to a syndrome in children called "failure to thrive," according to a new study.The research, to be published Thursday in Nature, shows that people with surplus copies of certain genes ...

Study finds gene "overdose" link to being skinny

LONDON (Reuters) - People with extra copies of certain genes are much more likely to be very skinny, scientists said Wednesday in the first finding of a genetic cause for extreme thinness.In a study in the journal Nature, researchers from Britain's Imperial ...

Scientists find how "sticky" egg captures sperm

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered exactly how a human egg captures an incoming sperm to begin the process of fertilization and say their discovery could in future help couples who suffer from infertility.In a study in the journal Science, an international ...

Scientists manipulate mosquitoes in malaria fight

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists working on malaria have found a way of genetically manipulating large populations of mosquitoes that could eventually dramatically reduce the spread of the deadly disease.In a study in the journal Nature, researchers from Imperial College London and the ...
Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated - on paper, anyhow - a metamaterial ?space-time cloak? that can conceal entire events from view, making a viewer see one thing while something entirely different takes place behind the cloak. Just as metamaterial ?invisibility ...

Physicists set sights on 'spacetime cloak'

The scientists have conceived of a "spacetime cloak" which manipulates light and, in essence, conceals whole events from a viewer.The theory is based on censoring the flow of events, which we perceive as a stream of light particles, also called photons, that ...
* Telepathic Genes * New research published in the January issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry suggests that genes are able to recognize other similar genes within the genome (all genes of an organism). This discovery is important as it may ...
There's a new twist in the ongoing battle over whether a virus is linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In the new study, conducted by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Harvard ...

Best of 2008: Invention

Any Harry Potter fan knows that it would have been difficult for Harry to sneak around Hogwarts without the use of his silvery invisibility cloak. In 2000, however, John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College London, proposed a superlens with a negative ...
Previous