New research carried out by sociologists has added to wealth of evidence that nature and nurture cannot be treated as separate factors when explaining human behaviour: human behaviour is the result of interactions between genes and the environment. Whether genes are expressed depends on environmental factors and genes themselves can change the environment.

Durham University's Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre have published research commissioned by the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society (the UK and Commonwealth's national science academy) on behalf of SCORE (Science Community Representing Education) that, according to the press release, "proves" that science and technology subjects are more difficult than "subjects like Media Studies and Psychology":