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
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Found 18 results for Anil Ananthaswamy
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
Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world
27 June 2017
What's the point of consciousness? Experiments suggest it evolved to help us learn and adapt more rapidly than we could without it
Baby brain scans can predict who is likely to develop autism
7 June 2017
A machine-learning program can tell from scans which high-risk infants will later show autism symptoms. This could, controversially, enable early intervention
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time
31 May 2017
From space-time to the way minds keep time, getting to grips with the temporal is complex but rewarding, shows a new book
Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months
24 May 2017
Illiterate adults who have learned to read and write over half a year show brain changes – even in regions not obviously linked to reading, writing or learning
A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind
19 May 2017
Using human consciousness as the trigger in a test of ‘spooky action at a distance’ could tell us whether mind is made of different stuff than matter
