Category: Research

A man expressing his emotions on a desert bilingually

Can Bilingual Thinking Influence How We Feel?

When bilinguals switch languages, they’re not just swapping vocabulary, but they’re entering different cognitive and emotional modes. Research (and our first-hand experience) might indicate that emotional intensity is often significantly more vigorous in a person’s...

A plant growing out of soil.

Can You Mine Metals with Plants?

The process of extracting metals from the soil by using certain types of plants called hyperaccumulators that can freely absorb and store metals in their tissues is known as phytoextraction or phytomining or biomining, which in this Geekswipe edition, you’ll be learning about.