What counts as an academic publication?
By Christopher Sampson, University of Nottingham
What is it that sets academic publications apart from articles on The Conversation? Peer review might be your first...
Robot submarine looks under Antarctic to find out why sea ice is getting thicker
By Edward Hanna, University of Sheffield
For several years now climatologists have puzzled over an apparent conundrum: why is Antarctic sea ice continuing to expand,...
Autopsies from space: who killed the sea lions?
By Markus Horning, Oregon State University
A decade ago, we set out to unravel deep ocean crime scenes we weren’t even sure existed. The crime?...
So when should you book that flight? The truth on airline prices
By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and Volodymyr Bilotkach, Newcastle University
How airlines price tickets is a source of many myths and urban legends....
Anxiety makes us more biased to threat but exercise can change our perception
By Adam Heenan, Queen's University, Ontario
We have a remarkable ability to detect the motion of other living things. If someone in our periphery moves,...
How the stress of playing chess can be fatal
By Andrew Lane, University of Wolverhampton
The death of a chess player in the middle of a match at the world’s most prestigious competition may...
How to bring the teen pregnancy rate down
By Colleen McNicholas, Washington University in St Louis
Teen pregnancy is a public health problem in the United States. According to 2010 estimates, girls aged...
Here’s how to fix America’s crumbling bridges
By Henry Petroski, Duke University
There are about 600,000 bridges in the United States, and about one in four is classified as functionally obsolete or...
