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Professor Brian Cox

Brains or beauty? People perceive attractive scientists as more interesting but less able, studies show

22 May 2017

If you think of good science communicators, it’s likely that the names Brian Cox, Alice Roberts or Neil deGrasse Tyson may come to mind. But do you...

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Reading the face of a leader

10 May 2016

Women (but not men) with both high and low facial masculinity are perceived as competitive leaders, finds new study co-authored by a Cambridge Judge...

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Lifelong learning and the plastic brain

19 Nov 2014

Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new...

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Heave, Ho!

Feeling powerless increases the weight of the world… literally

04 Feb 2014

New research shows that the more personally and socially powerless you feel the heavier objects appear to weigh.

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Mods & Rockers 1960s - 1970s

Generation blame: how age affects our views of anti-social behaviour

24 Jan 2014

Research reveals disconnect between what adults and young people interpret as anti-social behaviour (ASB), as 40% of adults see young people...

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Alice eyes. Researchers found that most children believe that people can only see each other when their eyes meet.

Windows to the self?

29 Oct 2012

Researchers have offered a convincing new theory which explains why children believe that they are invisible when they cover their eyes.

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