Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
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Why do hot countries have spicy food?
Ever wondered why the spiciest food comes from hot countries, but cold countries often have plainer comfort food? We analysed recipes from all over the world to test the “Darwinian gastronomy” hypothesis that spices are used because they protect people from food poisoning.
Studying the menstrual cycle in a male-dominated field
Reflections on the paper "Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs"
Promises and challenges of Big Team Psychology
Lessons behind the paper, “To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?”
After the paper | The threat of political bargaining to climate mitigation in Brazil
The paper we published in Nature Climate Change in 2018 took us to a new level of scientific exposure, increasing our responsibility to continually improve our work, but at the same time improved our confidence in continuing to carry out more ambitious and relevant research into the future.
Behind CoronaNet: How we built our dataset
By: Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Vanja Grujic, Robert Kubinec, Timothy Model, and Caress Schenk
