Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move
22 November 2017
50 years ago, the theory of plate tectonics was radical counterculture – until some chance happenings in the Summer of Love sent it mainstream
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Found 16 results for Anil Ananthaswamy
The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness
27 September 2017
We’ve glimpsed mind-bending geometric structures that fleetingly encode our thoughts, memories and feelings – and could solve the greatest mystery of all
Why am I rubbish at maths? And other curious questions answered
30 August 2017
Mathematics is like marmite, people tend to love it or hate it. Find out why it can make us nervous, why we struggle at it and whether animals can do it too
Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for
30 August 2017
Maths helps us comprehend the incredible complexity of the universe, but are we born with the ability to calculate, or did we invent it?
The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner
23 August 2017
Gregory Berns coaxes dogs into MRI scanners to see what's going on in their heads. It even reveals if they would make good helpers for people with disabilities
The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space-time
26 July 2017
The discovery of an exquisite geometric structure is forcing a radical rethink of reality, and could clear the way to a quantum theory of gravity
