In a Chinese school, a ‘mind-reading’ headband tells teachers when their students are distracted

Neuroscience-based pedagogy might have unintended consequences.

Bruce E Wexler

· Dec 09, 2019 · 09:30 pm

There a croak, hear a croak: How scientists found a way to listen to elusive, threatened frogs

A robust technique using digital media has helped researchers understand how the species are faring in our ever-changing planet.

John Measey, The Conversation

· Dec 14, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Microbes and machines: How art and science fuse in Bio-art

When art meets the biological sciences, living matter becomes the medium.

Darrin Sean Verhagen, The Conversation

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Sean Redmond, The Conversation

· Nov 19, 2016 · 05:30 am

The ambitious plan to make India the new centre of the experimental physics world

The country's own gravitational wave observatory, a proposal for which was first floated in the 1980s, is close to becoming a reality.

Sonali Prasad, qz.com

· Sep 12, 2016 · 07:30 pm

Are the Japanese and Ecuador earthquakes related?

When two major earthquakes occur within days of each other thousands of kilometres apart, it can look like they're connected. Here's what the science says.

Mark Quigley and Mike Sandiford, The Conversation

· Apr 21, 2016 · 11:30 pm

The race to find even more new elements to add to the periodic table

They might only last for a fraction of a second but four new elements have finally won their place in the periodic table. The hunt is now on to find even more.

David Hinde, The Conversation

· Jan 06, 2016 · 02:30 pm