How to beat burnout in an increasingly fast-paced world
These days, it can be easy to feel like we have too much to do and too little time to do it in. This can lead to many of us feeling overwhelmed, or in extreme cases, can lead to burnout – a state of p...
12 Tammi 37min
Why your next best friend may be an AI
Over the last several decades, the world has seen artificial intelligence undergo a rapid transformation. Since its beginnings in the 1950s as speculative theorising and novel thought experiments, AI ...
9 Tammi 34min
How the arts can keep our bodies and brains healthier for longer
For many of us, consuming or making art – be it listening to music, playing an instrument, reading a book, painting a watercolour or attending a dance class – is seen as a pastime or hobby, a fun way ...
5 Tammi 29min
Why social connection is vital for our health and well-being
There’s little doubt that we humans are a deeply social species; in many ways, our interactions with others define the very essence of who we are. But in recent times, studies have shown that we’re co...
19 Joulu 202538min
Why the new era of life-saving drugs starts with plants
Chances are that if you open your bathroom cabinet, many of the medicines you find there were first discovered by studying the chemical processes of the plants that grow all around us. But with 450,00...
15 Joulu 202534min
How to beat the alarming increase in childhood allergies
Currently, around 40 per cent of children in the UK have been diagnosed with an allergy of some form or another – the most common being food allergies, eczema, asthma, and hay fever. Why is this numbe...
12 Joulu 202524min
Our Universe could be trapped inside a black hole with no way out
It sounds like a theory plucked from the page of a science fiction novel, but according to Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth, our entire Universe could be trapped inside a black hole...
8 Joulu 202545min
The real story behind Jurassic Park’s most controversial dinosaur
Chances are that when most of us think of spinosaurs our minds will turn to the hulking, predatory sail-backed dinosaur that famously took down a T. Rex in the Jurassic Park movies. But thanks to thei...
5 Joulu 202531min
