How to win the Euros – with a little help from neuroscience

Jun 16, 2016 16:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Sports

It cant be easy trying to pick a team for a huge football tournament like the Euros, carrying the hopes of an entire nation. Football managers may have great skill and intuition, but it is, after all, not an exact science....

Second detection heralds the era of gravitational wave astronomy

Jun 16, 2016 06:31 am UTC| Science

Earlier this year, a team of over 1,000 scientists from across the globe announced the first discovery of gravitational waves and the first ever observation of colliding black holes. That same team has now published a...

How much radiation damage do astronauts really suffer in space?

Jun 16, 2016 05:32 am UTC| Science

Space is a really inhospitable place to live theres no breathable air, microgravity wastes away your bones and muscles and youre subjected to increased doses of radiation in the form of high-energy charged particles....

Is there life through the looking-glass? The riddle of life's single-handedness

Jun 15, 2016 06:55 am UTC| Science

Try shaking a colleagues left hand with your right hand. It just doesnt work, does it? Your right palm and her or his left palm cannot mesh comfortably because hands are chiral objects, having non-superimposable mirror...

How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies

Jun 14, 2016 09:47 am UTC| Science

It used to be that you had to have years of training before you could participate in cutting-edge science. But that has changed, with the power of the internet enabling thousands of ordinary people to contribute to one...

'Antibiotic stewardship' to keep superbugs at bay just isn't happening

Jun 07, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Science Health

Panic has spread with the discovery of a bacterium, Escherichia coli, in the United States that is resistant to the last bastions of antibiotics. This superbug, which causes many common infections such as urinary tract...

If we know so much about disease, where are all the cures?

Jun 02, 2016 09:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Science

We know so much about the genes that cause disease, so why are we not approaching an age of Star-Trek-like medicine in which a doctor can wave a handheld device over a patient, claim to have sequenced the genes of the...