About
Akira has always been captivated with the art of storytelling. He soon realized that he could merge this interest with his scientific career. For example, how would you explain what DNA is to a 5 year old child? He believes that questions like this can be clearly answered by using metaphors and stories which can be easily understood by everyone. Since science is one of the best ways to uncover the beauty of our world, Akira aims to bring this message across by sharing exciting and elegant scientific stories with TheScienceBreaker.
Published Breaks
- Evolution & Behaviour
The evolution of the new coronavirus: what the past teaches us for a better future
April 9, 20204 min read7,117 views - Health & Physiology
Sleep or die: how good sleep decreases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
October 23, 20194 min read4,054 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Making “hoppy” beer without hops
October 30, 20184 min read8,138 views
Edited Breaks
- Psychology
How accurate is our memory?
August 25, 20214 min read61,699 views - Health & Physiology
Age matters: how aging affects cancer
August 19, 20213 min read4,061 views - Psychology
Can placebos make you feel better?
August 17, 20213 min read5,786 views - Psychology
Damping bad memories to live without concerns
August 12, 20214 min read3,894 views - Psychology
College roommates influence each other’s political ideology
August 5, 20213 min read4,849 views - Health & Physiology
Gut microbes govern cancer
July 29, 20214 min read4,029 views - Earth & Space
How fisheries bring carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere
July 23, 20213 min read5,716 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How did wild cats turn into our beloved domestic animals?
July 19, 20214 min read8,558 views - Earth & Space
Overfishing endangers oceanic sharks and rays
July 14, 20214 min read5,901 views - Earth & Space
Global warming puts fish mating at risk
July 12, 20214 min read4,380 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
How an artificial intelligence bends a single molecule
July 9, 20215 min read3,877 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Sea otters: how welcome should a recovering top predator be?
July 7, 20214 min read5,633 views - Earth & Space
No longer a secret: advanced satellite technologies monitor illegal ‘dark vessels’
July 2, 20214 min read5,666 views - Health & Physiology
Transforming the spleen into a functioning liver
June 30, 20213 min read3,518 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
What can land-free Earth teach us about climate evolution?
June 28, 20214 min read4,350 views - Earth & Space
A peculiar bright burst of radio waves in the Milky Way
June 23, 20213 min read4,325 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Homing pigeons find their way home by smelling the air
June 15, 20214 min read11,254 views - Earth & Space
Message in a frozen bubble: Antarctic ice reveals abrupt rises in atmospheric CO2 in the ancient past
June 9, 20215 min read4,137 views - Health & Physiology
How low protein diets promote healthy aging
June 8, 20214 min read6,744 views - Health & Physiology
How a protein modification navigates sperm to the egg
June 4, 20214 min read5,172 views - Health & Physiology
New treatment options for Zika virus infection
June 2, 20214 min read3,920 views - Earth & Space
Networking between marine protected areas help sustain fisheries
May 31, 20214 min read4,116 views - Earth & Space
How rain sculpts mountains
May 27, 20215 min read6,611 views - Earth & Space
What the Earth’s ‘voice’ tells us about its underground architecture
May 25, 20214 min read4,575 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
How an artificial molecular machine pumps in nanoscale
May 20, 20214 min read4,164 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Ancient Mesoamerica demonstrates we’ve been ballgame lovers for more than 3000 years
May 18, 20214 min read4,686 views - Earth & Space
‘Rivers in the sky’ carrying warm air destroy precious Antarctic sea ice
May 6, 20213 min read5,283 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Raincoats in nature: waterproof armors for insects and plants
April 30, 20213 min read5,279 views - Psychology
Sleepiness can disturb our social life
April 28, 20213 min read5,011 views - Health & Physiology
Tougher than expected: insulin’s surprising thermostability expands diabetes patients’ hope in tropical countries
April 26, 20214 min read4,186 views - Evolution & Behaviour
More than money: what do we need to adapt to climate change?
April 22, 20214 min read3,923 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How the ancient ‘hell ant’ got its bizarre horn
April 20, 20213 min read6,614 views - Health & Physiology
Forced to react: 3D printing can stretch a single cell
April 16, 20214 min read4,586 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Let’s live together: sharing with others may help us live longer
April 14, 20213 min read4,888 views - Microbiology
Microbial life on our tongue
April 12, 20214 min read9,927 views - Earth & Space
Leveraging Earth to study how water formed on ancient Mars
April 7, 20214 min read5,988 views - Earth & Space
Diversity may save wines from climate change
March 26, 20214 min read4,469 views - Health & Physiology
Awake or dreaming: how brain ‘noise’ tells the difference
March 22, 20214 min read6,597 views - Health & Physiology
What genetics teaches us about living a long and healthy life
March 16, 20214 min read5,226 views - Earth & Space
Deep-sea mining may threaten microbial communities
March 15, 20214 min read4,567 views - Earth & Space
The stars that time forgot remember the youth of our Milky Way
March 12, 20214 min read4,031 views - Earth & Space
Could COVID-19 decide our climate future?
March 10, 20214 min read4,297 views - Neurobiology
How your body knows to shout ‘ouch’
March 5, 20214 min read4,311 views - Earth & Space
Is dark matter lighting up the sky with X-rays?
March 2, 20214 min read4,136 views - Microbiology
Tuberculosis drug discovery: an in-house toxin blocks pathogenic bacterial growth
February 26, 20213 min read4,723 views - Earth & Space
Too hot to stay cool: dangerously accelerating glaciers’ melt in New Zealand
February 24, 20214 min read3,895 views - Earth & Space
Exposing the remnant core of a giant planet
February 22, 20214 min read4,840 views - Plant Biology
How a mint turned into catmint
February 17, 20214 min read7,661 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Shelling out for dinner: dolphins’ foraging technique spreads socially among peers
February 16, 20214 min read4,874 views - Microbiology
Engineering bacteria to save honey bees
February 11, 20214 min read8,389 views - Evolution & Behaviour
The mystery of an ancient reptile with a ridiculously long neck
February 8, 20214 min read7,188 views - Earth & Space
What the “invisible” side of the Moon is like
February 4, 20213 min read4,260 views - Health & Physiology
Diagnosing cancer by microbial signatures
February 3, 20214 min read4,800 views - Earth & Space
A neighborhood in space: finding the Moon’s age to understand Earth’s evolution
February 1, 20214 min read4,627 views - Earth & Space
What Caribbean coasts can tell us about the future of climate change
January 28, 20213 min read4,919 views - Health & Physiology
The Trojan mosquito: an in-house parasite defends against malaria
January 26, 20213 min read9,382 views - Earth & Space
A rapidly changing ocean is alarming for fisheries sustainability
January 22, 20214 min read4,180 views - Evolution & Behaviour
It’s clear: the glass frog’s transparent belly has a special advantage
January 20, 20214 min read12,016 views - Earth & Space
Cometary nitrogenous salts tell about the Solar System’s history
January 15, 20214 min read4,411 views - Plant Biology
A future of tasty tomatoes
January 14, 20203 min read7,315 views - Plant Biology
How plants protect themselves from salt stress
June 26, 20194 min read4,470 views - Earth & Space
Staying ahead of the wave: predicting fishing efforts in a changing world to save biodiversity
March 25, 20194 min read4,809 views