Yesterday the UN warned that if no action is taken to tackle antimicrobial resistance, drug-resistant diseases could cause 10m deaths a year by 2050. One of the ways of tackling this problem is to get doctors to issue fewer prescriptions for antibiotics. But this won’t work, says Andrew Colman. His latest study uses game theory to show that doctors will continue to prescribe antibiotics whenever it seems possible that a patient has a bacterial infection, as this is the best strategy for their own patients. Different strategies are needed to interrupt this deadly “game”.

Stillness and quiet are not qualities you would necessarily associate with the mainstream cinema – along with lengthy tracking shots and a narrative focus on the more mundane aspects of life, they’ve come to represent the “slow cinema” movement. Until recently this has been something for aficionados of arthouse movies, but – with the success of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma at the 2018 Oscars – the slow movie aesthetic is making its way into the mainstream. Film scholar Andrew Russell reports.

The world is full of weird and wonderful eyes: insects’ eyes are made up of thousands of tiny “mini eyes” joined together; spiders have different pairs of eyes that they use for different tasks; crabs have eyes on stalks, and some molluscs can have up to 100 eyes. But why do humans have whites in our eyes, when so many other animals have dark eyes? Jonathan Denniss explains, in the latest instalment of Curious Kids.

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