Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Predicting the future is considered a fool’s game. Yet we can’t help but wonder what ideas we’ll be talking about in the decades to come… presumably while sitting in a bar on the Moon, sipping anti-ageing, dark matter martinis.

Hundreds of…

Optical illusions are great fun, and they fool virtually everyone. But have you ever wondered if you could train yourself to unsee these illusions? Our latest research suggests that you can.

Optical illusions tell a lot about how people see…

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, but researchers at Northwestern University may have found a new solution. Their newly developed method can break down plastic using nothing more than moisture…

But one of Malle’s graduate students was on the case. Britta Späth.

“Our Obsession”

In 2003, Späth arrived at the University of Kassel to start her doctorate with Malle. She was almost perfectly suited for working on the McKay conjecture:…

Is it possible to navigate your way to better brain health? That was the tantalising question raised by a recent study in the British Medical Journal, which found that being a taxi or ambulance driver may offer protection against

How can you burn more calories as you walk? Walk farther, walk faster or walk harder. Those are basically your options, right? But let’s take the scenic route on this answer because walking is fast becoming a hot research topic among health…

Scientists might soon be able to forecast when the see is gonna turn red – and don’t worry,…

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving.

Just a few years after uncovering a trove of exceptionally preserved fossils,…

People of all ages can benefit from eating resistant starch from various sources. Resistant starch gives a host of benefits, including improved blood sugar control and better gut health. 

Starch, a carbohydrate, consists of polymers made from…

Your body may move to the music on the dance floor, but how does your brain function when listening to tunes while you work?

A lot of people swear one way or another — electronic music may speed up the pace of typing for some, while others just…