June 27th – July 1st marks the beginning of Britain’s biggest ever school sporting event – School Sport Week, with over five million children from around 15,000 schools taking part. Keen sportswoman Gabby Logan has appeared on ITVs Daybreak urging parents and guardians to get behind their children’s schools to offer them support during 2011′s read more »

Staring into a beautiful painting can create the same level of pleasure as gazing into the eyes of someone you love, say researchers. The study in question involved Professor Semir Zeki scanning the brains of volunteers as they looked at art such as paintings by Claude Monet. The brain scans actually showed that staring into read more »

According to the research paper ‘Bored George Helps Others: A Pragmatic Meaning-Regulation Hypothesis on Boredom and Prosocial Behaviour’, being bored can actually trigger people to seek out and participate in more meaningful behaviour. The paper, which was co-authored by Wijnand van Tilburg and Dr Eric Igou, set out to investigate the link between boredom and read more »

A new NHS scheme is encouraging people to get back in the saddle with their new ‘Get Active Get Cycling’ scheme. The scheme which is running in County Durham is funded by the local NHS trust and hopes to cut cardiovascular disease in the area by encouraging people to get on their bikes and get read more »

According to a recent study, reminiscing about days gone by could help the current and future ones to go well. Experts from San Francisco State University examined the personality traits of 750 individuals using a series of tests. The researchers then looked at how each of the volunteers rated for what psychologist’s considered to be read more »