In sport, the margin between success and failure is often measured in milliseconds. It could be a cricketer adjusting their foot positioning, a runner refining their sprint start or a footballer perfecting their passing. This is where motion capture comes in – among the many approaches being used for athletic performance and movement analysis. Conventional motion […] … learn more→

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. Most folks who have been through high school mathematics courses will have taken a class called algebra – maybe even a sequence of classes called […] … learn more→

● 43% of Gen Z play games every day ● In-game reward systems to bad relationships with parents can be the cause of our gaming addiction. ● Being restless when not playing games is one of the signs of addiction. Almost every day, you spend time playing games . Game addiction even makes you forget the time, […] … learn more→

Inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students are tuning in remotely in a distracting environment. That’s a main finding of our recent research published in Communications Psychology. With co-authors Dahwi Ahn, Hymnjyot Gill and Karl Szpunar, we present evidence that adding mini-quizzes into an online lecture […] … learn more→

I n a world captivated by miracle creams, trendy supplements, and promises of eternal youth, we often overlook the most powerful anti-aging technologies readily available to us: diet and exercise. The quest to slow aging and extend healthy lifespan has driven scientific research for decades, and the evidence consistently points to these foundational lifestyle factors […] … learn more→

Employee mental health, once a silent and often overlooked issue, has now become an urgent workplace concern. In Canada, the rate of depression and anxiety has doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mental Health Commission of Canada reports that one in five adults experiences mental illness, but stigma remains a significant barrier, with 60 per cent of those […] … learn more→

A team of researchers has just generated the perception of a new color they’ve dubbed “olo,” which apparently has never been seen before. The lucky winners were five people whose photoreceptors were stimulated with a laser. First of all, it’s important to clarify that colors don’t “exist” as such, since what we perceive in the retina, at […] … learn more→

Filming, editing, and posting videos on social media is now a central activity in young people’s social lives. But it’s also a complex, even dangerous, activity, especially for young women. What do they film, what don’t they film, and why? A look back at the findings of a survey. In an article dated March 12, 2025 , […] … learn more→

Many of us compartmentalise different types of writing. Creative writing is for novelists, poets, playwrights, and so on. Research writing is done by people who are not creative writers. It consists of monographs, journal articles, book chapters, reports, and so on. Then there are a bunch of research tasks we don’t really think of as […] … learn more→

Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere they may not want to live. This advice is because of how hard it is to get a tenure-track professor position. These days, this advice may be less relevant as graduate students are increasingly pursuing and […] … learn more→