FC Barcelona: how our new research helped unlock the 'Barca way'

Sep 25, 2018 18:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports

FC Barcelona are one of the most successful domestic football teams of all time. Some believe that one of the key ingredients of their success, across all levels of the club, is the unique philosophy and training methods...

Microplastics are getting into mosquitoes and contaminating new food chains

Sep 25, 2018 18:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

There is no doubt that plastic pollution in oceans is a growing worldwide problem. The internet is full of images of seabirds and other marine animals entangled in plastic waste, and animals starve because their guts are...

Five psychological reasons why people fall for scams – and how to avoid them

Sep 25, 2018 18:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Con artists, fraudsters and their hapless victims are a staple of the news cycle and hardly a week seems to pass without a story about an e-mail lottery scam or a telephone fraud. Many reading these stories perhaps just...

Three things we can all learn from people who don't use smartphones or social media

Sep 25, 2018 18:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Many of us spend hours every day tethered to our devices, pawing at the screen to see if it will deliver a few more likes or emails, monitoring the world and honing our online presence. Social networking platforms such as...

AI could help us manage natural disasters – but only to an extent

Sep 25, 2018 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

In the last few years, AI has become ever more powerful. It can diagnose diseases, book restaurants, fake presidential speeches, and even compose hit music and produce trailers for horror movies. So in this new era of big...

Mindfulness meditation: ten minutes a day improves cognitive function

Sep 25, 2018 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Practising mindfulness meditation for ten minutes a day improves concentration and the ability to keep information active in ones mind, a function known as working memory. The brain achieves this by becoming more...

How an ancient Islamic holiday became uniquely Caribbean

Sep 25, 2018 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

A throng of Trinidadians line up along the streets of St. James and Cedros to admire the vibrant floats with beautifully bedecked models of mausoleums. Their destination is the waters of the Caribbean, where the crowds...