The Mental Database: The Link Between Chess, Sport and Expertise
Christian C Nyberg checks how the game of chess gives insight on the difference between your regular joe and an elite athlete, or well, any expert for that matter.
Why Malarial Parasites Keep Track of Time
Robyn Womack explores how parasites can use body clocks to their advantage.
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Technology Solving the Water Crisis
Emma Briggs investigates how a recent technological advance in metal-organic frameworks allows for water to be harvested from dry air.
Rise of the Cephalopods
Cephalopod populations around the globe are increasing. What is causing the success for these complex invertebrates?
Unlocking the Mystery of Memory
Do you have perfect recall? Claire Harris explores how accessing your mind palace may be the key to a better memory.
Health Damage by Air Pollution Prevented by Food Supplements?
Eliška Kosová talks about the health damage by air pollution and how vitamin B and omega-3 fatty acids can prevent it.
Pinpointing the Placebo Effect
Gabriela De Sousa discusses the ever-mysterious placebo effect, and a new study which claims to have found a ‘placebo area’ in the brain.
Language Diffusion
Mathematical models from physics can show us how a big language might eradicate a smaller one, Ida Emilie Steinmark finds.
