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An enormous milkshake. BrittanyD/Shutterstock

August 6, 2025

Chris Marley, University of South Wales and Damian Bailey, University of South Wales

We fed people milkshakes containing 130g of fat to see what it did to their brains.

Shutterstock/Alex Kravtsov

October 15, 2020

Tom Owens, University of South Wales; Chris Marley, University of South Wales, and Damian Bailey, University of South Wales

Thankfully treatment has moved on from the cold sponge of the amateur era. But brain damage continues to be a serious risk in many sports.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station in 2012. NASA

November 19, 2018

Damian Bailey, University of South Wales

New research has uncovered exactly what happens to the brain when astronauts are in space.