The researchers note that another British study found levels of imidacloprid in rape crops that were seven times higher than the food supplied by the researchers.

ECONOMIST: Bees and insecticides

One British study even found that people were more willing to help an injured stranger if that stranger were wearing the jersey of their favorite soccer team.

CNN: What made London Samaritan so brave

One study by the University of British Columbia found that 20 minutes of exercise spurred greater sexual response in the women participants compared with no exercise at all.

CNN: Exercise: Key to good sex, good sleep

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.

BBC: How many Britons are descended from slave-owners?

It has long been the consensus in the medical profession that passive smoking is dangerous, so there was outrage when the British Medical Journal of May 17th published a study which found that non-smokers whose spouse smoked did not suffer lung cancer or other smoking-related diseases as a result.

ECONOMIST: Ups and downs for Big Tobacco

An international study published on December 7th found that the reading skills of British secondary school pupils have fallen behind those of children living in France and Germany.

ECONOMIST: Academic excellence

In response, James Cant, head of the British Lung Foundation Scotland, pointed to a 2010 NHS study in England which found that about 18% of children aged 11 to 15 were exposed to smoke in cars.

BBC: MSP wants ban on smoking in cars carrying children