Brain

10/03/2017 - 15:28

Wisdom mustn’t be confused with intelligence. Although intelligence helps, you can be intelligent without being wise. The wise people... →

04/03/2017 - 13:32

As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated... →

19/02/2017 - 15:31

As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →

02/01/2017 - 13:07

Our intelligence must have also been useful when we were evolving—presumably it helped us to be better hunters and avoid being hunted... →

06/12/2016 - 12:41

"This is a really fundamental find—it's like the dark matter of memory," says Geoffrey Woodman, a cognitive neuroscientist at Vanderbilt... →

25/11/2016 - 18:40

The human brain has nearly 100,000 times as many neurons as the bee brain, yet the rudiments of many of our most valued behaviours can be... →

04/11/2016 - 16:44

We are talking in the living room of his son Victor, who is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, during a flying visit from his... →

23/10/2016 - 13:59

These are not rare events. Every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. It... →

05/10/2016 - 14:30

Learning math and then science as an adult gave me passage into the empowering world of engineering. But these hard-won, adult-age changes... →

08/09/2016 - 11:58

The political lens There is now a mountain of evidence to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific... →

10/08/2016 - 14:56

“Placebo is a complex phenomenon in which the patient’s expectation of recovery affects his state of health,” she continued. “Expectation... →

07/08/2016 - 13:12

Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car? We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →

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