Financial services workers, medical students and others working in highly competitive environments are using so-called “smart drugs” to enhance cognitive performance. Do they actually…
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Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety…
Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg…
The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first…
Debates about AI often characterise it as a technology that has come to compete with human intelligence. Indeed, one of…
The big idea Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced…
Do you remember learning to drive a car? You probably fumbled around for the controls, checked every mirror multiple times,…
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and concrete formed the basis for most structures on Earth.…
In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a…
A new 3D-printing technique using silicone can make accurate models of the blood vessels in your brain, enabling neurosurgeons to…