Working memory measures potential to learn, and can be crucial in supporting classroom achievement, says Tracy Packiam Alloway
Genetic tests can offer deep insights into your future health. But would you really want to know?
A laundry additive that neutralises nitrogen oxide could radically improve air quality, says Tony Ryan
By networking 250 years of chemistry knowledge, Bartosz Grzybowski hopes to make drug manufacture quicker and cheaper
What fossilised dental plaque can reveal about ancient humans' diet, disease and environment could improve our future health
Want to be like Bob Dylan? Jonah Lehrer has looked at how creative minds work and suggests we can all be more innovative, writes Tim Lewis
Bestselling author Susan Cain tells Ian Tucker about on the cultural dominance of extroverts
Synthetic biology has the potential to replace or improve drug therapies for a wide range of brain disorders, says Ed Boyden
Quantum physicist Krister Shalm is using his love of swing dancing to bring his research to a wider audience, writes Ian Tucker
