Emerging computer technologies will change our lives for the better by 2020. But we need to retain control to ensure that these developments do not impact negatively on basic human values, according to a new report.

Young children who lead inactive lifestyles are five-to-six times more likely to be at serious risk of heart disease, with that degree of danger emerging as early as their teenage years, according to a new study.

The Department of Homeland Security's color-coded system for warning the public of the risk of a terrorist attack does not appear to cause undue stress among law enforcement officers, according to a new study. The study is among the first

A new research study aims to stop the progression of early active stage multiple sclerosis in its tracks. There are currently more than 2.5 million people worldwide with MS, a chronic disease that affects the central nervous system.

In 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that people with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels. But that study could not answer the question

Most brain functions, such as memory, require a sophisticated network of molecular interactions. However, experimental methods can only analyze a limited number of these interactions at a time. Now, researchers have pioneered a novel approach, which enables them to analyze