Juanita Bawagan

Looking more closely at how children learn and progress can demystify pathways in learning.

Taken from the August 2021 issue of Physics World.

A feature I wrote for the 10-year anniversary of canSAR -- the largest, public cancer drug discovery platform in the world.

Several major scientific-journal publishers have launched policies that allow scientists to easily change their name on previous publications – a move that transgender researchers have been campaigning to introduce for years.

Modern algorithms have transformed our understanding of the “Turing Test” and what it means for artificial intelligence

Deciding what we need in our lives and what to cut out is no simple task. When it comes to our cells, this responsibility lies with the spliceosome.

Researchers found that observing an older sibling’s risk-taking can change the behaviour and brain patterns of younger siblings.

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Twenty-five years ago, a team of researchers made a historic discovery, here are some of their stories.

Smartphone games have the potential to reveal how our brains reach decisions and how these processes can go awry

How can we calculate the true toll of the pandemic?

Supportive early environments can have powerful effects on the health of children who are more sensitive to their surroundings.

With more interactions happening online, research shows children may be developing social skills in new and surprising ways.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact, but its effects have hit some groups harder than others.

Researchers are using a new approach to understand why same-sex behaviour is so common across the animal kingdom