Interviews with Scientists

The pandemic has interfered with learning, but not just for schoolchildren...

UK MP Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Committee, weighs in on lost learning and mental health...

How does learning work in the brain? And what does learning virtually do to this process?

Schoolchildren have spent much of the pandemic learning virtually. Here's how two kids find the situation...

Mysterious structures, discovered a century ago near Abydos, have turned out to be a huge brewing operation...

Scientists have connected several massive prehistoric events to a weakening of Earth's magnetic field...

Researchers have made a surprising, accidental discovery: life, in a place it shouldn't exist...

The WHO team dispatched to China, to investigate the origins of the pandemic, have published their results...

Researchers in Scotland find problems - unsurprisingly - where alcohol is involved...

As oxygen minimum zones enlarge in the ocean, sharks are more at risk of getting caught up in fishing lines

Evidence that there are important genes in COVID that are being ignored in the literature

How the diversity of microbes in sourdough starters can affect the flavour and rise of the bread

With the UK making plans to reopen schools on 8th March, scientists have tried to predict the consequences...

What's the best way to deal with being bored?

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What boredom neuroscience exists out there?

How does boredom relate to depression?

We hear from an art historian on boredom during lockdown...

Magnesium supplements boost the long-term memory of flies

Archaeological detective work to find a city of ancient Egypt

What can your movements in the virtual world give away about you?

Should you play the latest Mario game?

Is the sequel to Little Nightmares just as scary?

Can our reporter channel his inner pig?