When a nurse at St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, England, walked past one of the hospital’s drains last year, they immediately did a double take. Someone was stuck six feet down, confused and shivering.

When researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all of them to figure out what the shaking was for. The deceptively simple work by Johns ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...