Research

21/10/2017 - 12:27

Air pollution had the biggest impact, accounting for two-thirds of deaths from pollution. Brunei and Sweden had the lowest numbers of... →

14/10/2017 - 13:21

Animators such as Hayao Miyazaki, Walt Disney and the people at Pixar Studios are masterful at imagination, but they’re only creating a... →

10/10/2017 - 15:27

Films, such as Logan’s Run and Soylent Green, have painted grim visions of an overpopulated future, where drastic measures... →

05/10/2017 - 12:10

Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →

29/09/2017 - 14:42

Here’s what you should know: What is ‘old’? Most people wouldn’t say that a 38-year-old qualifies, but once you pass the median age... →

24/09/2017 - 13:45

However, the Berkeley professor of physics is not convinced that the current methods of teaching and funding science are conducive to... →

17/09/2017 - 13:24

Research suggests it’s during your mid-thirties that family pressure and increased financial responsibility conflate causing problems both... →

11/09/2017 - 14:54

They may have been looking too closely. When it comes to the neuroscience of learning, zeroing in on synapse action misses the forest for... →

06/09/2017 - 12:36

It makes sense that it might – after all, publicly binding yourself to another person takes loyalty and forward thinking, not to... →

30/08/2017 - 10:05

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eschews the normally sober tone of... →

25/08/2017 - 17:10

The cross-cultural study included 2,324 university students in eight countries: the United States, Brazil, China, Germany, Ghana, Israel,... →

20/08/2017 - 12:15

Crucially, these average differences in personality between nations are not the same as the stereotypes we hold. Although we tend to agree... →

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