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Perhaps he can ask his mother to ask The Almightly God of which she purports to be his representative on Earth for the Anglicans, to intervene.

Should France ban the full veil?

France's lower house of parliament has approved a ban on wearing the Islamic full veil in public. Is this right?

Cells have many ways to live, only a couple of ways to die

Robert Horvitz's Nobel Prize came largely for his work in turning a small, transparent worm that lives in the dirt into an experimental system that has won several others Nobel Prizes since. But his pioneering use of C. elegans came about because he was interested in a problem that was simply easier to address in the animal: how and when cells in an organism choose to die through a process ...

Researchers find that Sirtuin1 may boost memory and learning ability

The same molecular mechanism that increases life span through calorie restriction may help boost memory and brainpower, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report in the July 11 issue of Nature.

Can Genes And Brain Abnormalities Create Killers?

Breakthroughs in neuroscience are changing the way criminals are defended in court. Scientific research on brain scans and DNA has provided new insight on how some kinds of criminals are different from law-abiding citizens. Differences in their brains and genes may predispose them to violence.