Background and Objectives: Love failure can cause intense emotional damage in a person. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and strengthen the factors that improve the experience of an individual with love failure. With this background in mind, the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of spiritual-religious psychotherapy on love trauma syndrome and acceptance of the problem in female s...

An enormous new greenhouse project in southern Britain aims to heighten awareness of the human relationship with plants and the growing potential of plant-derived compounds to find new uses, reports Nigel Williams

With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.

Affluent western individuals are increasingly fretting about the carbon dioxide emissions from their lifestyle and energy use but one key issue, having fewer children, is little considered. Nigel Williams reports.

Alarm bells have been ringing around the world about the decline in number of many amphibian populations and a new global study deepens concerns about the future of many species. Nigel Williams reports.

The power of genetic analyses to study relationships between human populations is growing rapidly but there are some worries about the use of historically collected human material. Nigel Williams reports on a new study showing the value of such approaches.

A short commentary is given on the article in this issue by Nigel Unwin [IUCrJ (2017), 4, 393-399] on 'Segregation of lipids near acetylcholine-receptor channels imaged by cryo-EM'.

There's much anecdotal evidence that women get a raw deal if they choose a research career but there are hopes that new data gathered by a team of European Union researchers will help their prospects. Nigel Williams reports.

The US has been a major battle-ground amongst legislators coming to grips with the issue of embryonic stem cell research but the issue is reaching new heights in Italy. Nigel Williams reports.

1 I am obliged to Sanjiv Mahajan of National Statistics for help with this work and to Mike Orzag, Nick Oulton, Nigel Pain and two referees for helpful comments.