You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It turns out that you’d need to apply a lot of pressure.
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Weddings have become increasingly curated: everything from the shoes to the table runners are perfectly themed and colour-co-ordinated. It is emblematic of our cultural obsession with perfection.
Storm Fiona caused a lot of property damage and erosion on the Canadian coast. But its effects are also felt in the depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Learning that our brains process information differently when we’re standing up or lying down has implications for how we study and assess brain function.
Many elite athletes experience intense pressure, which can often manifest itself in many physical ways.
Study shows how to help students achieve their full potential.
A sport psychologist on how sportspeople are taught to handle high-pressure situations.
The pressure in the deepest part of the ocean can be 1,000 times greater than the pressure we experience at sea level – but creatures that live and visit there have some very special features.
Sport is full of high-pressure language which if eradicated can help athletes to express themselves and perform at their best.
Listen up. Today we’re hearing all about why your ears pop when you go up, up, up and away.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
What makes someone more likely to succeed when the lights shine brightest?
Athletes need to learn to find and access their ideal emotional state to achieve their best.
Science has some answers.
Britain’s number one tennis player must have been looking forward to an opening week of Wimbledon with the pressure slightly off, but thanks to England’s World Cup failure, a nation turns its lonely eyes…
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Head of Ear Health, Telethon Kids Institute, Curtin University
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Sport and Learning, University of Wolverhampton
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Discover Materials National Outreach Officer, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology, University of East London
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Professor of Quantitative Methods in Education, University of Oxford
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Professor of Psychology, California State University, Northridge
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Reader in Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
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PhD Candidate in Biology, University of St Andrews
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology, Loughborough University
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PhD Candidate, Sport and Exercise Psychology, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, Loughborough University
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Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
