Stress impairs your brain’s ability to link memories — dampening insight
Imaging suggests why the ability to make inferences declines after an episode of acute stress, such as a job interview.
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Vanishing tongues and life on Mars: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Monkeys that ‘draw’ reveal a neuronal population that encodes combinable actions
When faced with unfamiliar problems, humans and other animals must plan and execute action sequences that they might not have used before. In macaque monkeys, this ability is supported by a population of neurons in the brain’s frontal cortex that encode recombinable action units or ‘action symbols’.
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Antimicrobial resistance
Pathogens are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Scientists are working to slow the process and replenish the medicinal armoury.