Research

19/05/2017 - 13:11

Adam Bear and Joshua Knobe of Yale University, who have studied normalisation, wrote recently in the New York Times ... →

15/05/2017 - 15:51

About 17 percent of the children of Russian parents who immigrated to the Holy Land in the early and mid-1990s have since emigrated, either... →

09/05/2017 - 14:59

Vitamin D deficiencies are widespread, with around one billion people, from all age groups and ethnicities, suffering from them, even... →

03/05/2017 - 18:07

Is it even possible that the effects of trauma, such as experienced during the Holocaust or other horrifying events, can be inherited? That... →

03/05/2017 - 17:56

At first glance Erin and Audri Nelson look identical. They have the same chocolate coloured hair, they share dark, almond-shaped eyes and... →

27/04/2017 - 13:30

There is a growing cohort of well-credentialed scientists investigating radical life extension: geneticist Craig Venter, one of the first... →

22/04/2017 - 12:52

To Americans, democracy is a given. But to the rest of the world, it’s a fairly recent invention — a creature of the past two centuries.... →

16/04/2017 - 11:06

Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does... →

10/04/2017 - 12:41

Years ago when I was conducting my doctoral research on the evolutionary history of men among a remote indigenous community of hunter-... →

04/04/2017 - 12:54

Our fragile egos are partly to blame. We all want to meet our own expectations of ourselves, and so being critiqued – or even just the... →

28/03/2017 - 12:29

A lot of us are familiar with the psychological construct of narcissism as applied to an individual: someone who is grandiose and... →

21/03/2017 - 11:56

Scientists have plenty to say about charisma. Individuals with charisma tap our unfettered emotions and can shut down our rational minds.... →

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