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Study may pave the way to new treatments for depression

A new study shows that memory training for people with depression can lead to a significant improvement in their working memory and cognitive performance

New research calls for better guidance about HIV transmission and the law

Support services for people living with HIV will benefit from better information about prosecutions for the sexual transmission of HIV, according to a new report

Part-time learning helps workers boost skills and keep jobs

Levels of employment stability are particularly high for part-time students with four out of five working throughout their study and two years later, according to a new report

Swearing in foreign languages

How do multilinguals choose which language to swear in?

British Academy Fellowship for Dr Dominic Janes

Mid-Career Fellowship will fund project on queer visibility at the end of the nineteenth century.

Researchers find improved attention and memory skills in infants of blind parents

Study finds that sighted babies of blind parents may benefit from unusual face-to-face communication.

Birkbeck research reveals extent of couples ‘living apart together’

One in ten adults in Britain are in a relationship but not living with their partner, new research shows

Search for new antibiotics advanced by discovery of key processes within bacterial protein

Birkbeck scientists reveal cell process which could be a target for new antibiotics.

Neutrons help explain ozone poisoning and links to thousands of premature deaths each year

Research at Birkbeck uses world-leading neutron sources to demonstrate ozone attacks on lung surface fluids

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A day in the life of a scientist

Gordon's research focuses on whether people are good, or bad, at lying, and then to find out why or how.

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