Why is learning stuff harder as you get older...

CrowdScience listener Namrata and presenter Chhavi Sachdev have something in common. They both get more tanned in the summer in the United States than back home in India. Namrata wants to know why she came back from her run in Boston with such a deep tan and doesn’t have the same ...  Show more

There’s something fishy going on in the Czech Republic, where CrowdScience listener Ian lives. He keeps tropical fish, and he’s noticed that when he adds new ones to his tank, they swim with others of the same breed. He wants to know how they recognise each other. Do they know wh ...  Show more

For most people, learning any skill is a long, at-times challenging journey. Humans struggle to acquire expertise and, after attaining it, they must regularly use this knowledge or risk losing it. But what if you woke up one day, after an injury, to find you suddenly understoo ...

Tom Vanderbilt didn’t know how to play chess. That fact had never bothered him – until his four-year-old daughter decided she wanted to have a go. Within a couple of months, they’d recruited a teacher and both Tom and his daughter combo were battling it out over 64 squares. Tom f ...  Show more

Quels sont les grands enjeux des apprentissages pour les enfants du XXIe siècle ? J’ai eu l’honneur d’interviewer Grégoire Borst, Directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Éducation de l’enfant (CNRS). C’est un grand spécialiste du cerveau, et il partici ...

A growing field of scientific research supports the idea that it's NEVER too late to learn a new skill. An NYU professor explains how he finally learned to play the guitar as an adult and what he's learned about the brain's ability to keep growing.