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Population benefits of sexual selection explain the existence of males
20/05/2015 - 11:16
"Sexual selection operates when males compete for reproduction and females choose, and the existence of two different sexes encourages... →
The people who are lost in time
15/05/2015 - 13:29
Split minds From a medical perspective, Jacobs’ memory loss is considered to be a case of dissociative amnesia. This means there is no... →
Israel drops in tourism rankings due to high prices and security concerns
11/05/2015 - 11:48
Propping up the bottom of the list were Chad, Guinea, Angola, Yemen and Mauritania. "With its unique cultural history and religious... →
Israelis are the 11th happiest people in the world
02/05/2015 - 12:31
Frankly, my dear How can we be so happy and so sad at the same time? Needless to say, Gallup felt compelled to answer this question since... →
Women Preferred 2:1 in Academic Science Jobs
27/04/2015 - 11:10
But there is also evidence of less malicious forces at play. Cornell University Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci have presented... →
What’s the most we can remember?
22/04/2015 - 14:09
How is it that these peoples’ noodles put the average brain's memory to shame? And what do the abilities of pi reciters and savants say... →
How to catch a liar
18/04/2015 - 13:13
Catching fibs at work Catching employees fibbing at work is becoming increasingly important, said Floyd, a former US Central Intelligence... →
Psychology of laughter
12/04/2015 - 13:28
She started out her career by examining the voice more generally, and the rich information it offers about our identity. “You can get a... →
Will we ever… speak faster than light speed?
07/04/2015 - 18:11
Warping wormholes We may not be able to increase the speed of transmission; however we can increase the volume of information that is... →
At What Age Does Your Brain Peak
03/04/2015 - 15:44
To get some answers, psychologists Joshua Hartshorne and Laura Germine tested 21,926 people aged 10 to 71 who had visited the website... →
Why painful memories linger with us
30/03/2015 - 18:23
What you can do, though, is examine whether individual women’s recollections of their pain change with time. A Swedish study took more than... →
The disastrous events that would break the internet
26/03/2015 - 17:00
These buildings, scattered across the globe, are where networks from providers like Virgin or Comcast come together to exchange their... →

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