Dr Saul Newman is one of the winners of this year’s Ig Noble Prize – a satiric prize awarded each year to celebrate unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Not to be confused with the Nobel Prize.) As a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University, Dr Newman wanted to learn more about the […]
Spring Clean Your Mind: The Function of Sleep
There’s a variety of thoughts happening in our brain at any one point in time. We’re thinking about our to-do list, worrying about a heap of different things, replaying the past and planning for the future. Sometimes, your head space can feel rather full. And it’s during these times that we often neglect what we […]