Why we want more than we need19 August 2024Professor Bruce Hood featured in a podcast where he discusses attachment to our possessions
Professor Michael Banissy speaks with the Guardian about royal etiquette12 July 2024Last weekend the etiquette of an entire nation was flung into confusion when King Charles fist bumped a cricketer. While hosting the West Indies cricket team at Buckingham Palace last Saturday, the opening batter Mikyle Louis presented a fist to his majesty. In return, the king responded with a fist bump!
Toddlers' brains show significant growth in cognitive skills by 16 months, study finds11 July 2024Toddlers engage more regions of their brains around 16-months to help them develop important cognitive skills enabling them to follow simple instructions and control impulses. Findings from the study, led by the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and published in Imaging Neuroscience, suggests 16 months is a critical period for brain development.
NBU study features in "Vogue World" 21 June 2024In this article experts suggest, that rather than making us more productive, eating in front of the computer detracts us from physical and emotional health
Robot pigeons in the news!7 June 2024Work from our School suggests that cumulative improvements in route efficiency can spontaneously emerge in artificial agents without social communication or complex thought
