Move over poker – Millionaire’s Chess offers high stakes in Vegas
By John Sharples, Lancaster University
This October, the Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas is hosting a chess tournament with the largest prize fund in...
Ancient memory palace provides classical connection to 2014 Nobel prize in medicine
By Jessica Hughes, The Open University
To understand where we are, we must remember where we’ve been. This is one central theme that emerges from...
Ageing isn’t fixed – we can manipulate it to live longer
By Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, University of Liverpool
When I was younger, about ten years old, I realised that everyone ages and dies. And I...
Beef or fish, Madam? Soon you might not have the choice
By Kenny Black, Scottish Association for Marine Science
The amount of aquaculture produce worldwide - including farmed fish and shellfish - has now overtaken global...
Cloud data makes life easier for government spooks – and the law gives them...
By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
With the growth of internet-based cloud services, storage, social media and mobile devices, our activities increasingly leave digital...
How Swedish children learn English through gaming
By Pia Sundqvist, Karlstads University and Liss Kerstin Sylvén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
An hour of homework or an hour of World of Warcraft? It’s...
This obsession with parenting is out of control
By Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent
Not long ago, an email went around some of the academic lists I subscribe to entitled “New parenting study...
The main reason markets are falling? The future looks gloomier than it did before
By Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow
After a relatively benign period, market upheaval has returned. The main stock market indices have been falling across Asia,...
