Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A powerful combination of two cholesterol-lowering drugs could prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, according to the largest analysis of its kind.

Published in the journal Mayo…

The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is only a few centimeters long, yet it may be one of the most dangerous marine animals on Earth.

That’s because, as part of the blue-ringed octopus genus, it’s heavily armed – not just with…

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,…