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How to get people to overcome their bias
16/03/2017 - 13:48
Once you learn about this mental habit – called confirmation bias – you start seeing it everywhere. This matters when we... →
What is wisdom?
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... →
Alcohol in space
04/03/2017 - 14:41
Travelling thousands of miles above the Earth, into the great inky unknown, is hard work. It’s stressful and scary. So why shouldn’t... →
Fasting diet could slow aging
27/02/2017 - 18:38
“It’s not trivial to do this kind of study,” says circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in... →
Why pain hard to measure
17/02/2017 - 15:57
One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, “I’ve got this awful pain just here.” She prodded her abdomen and made a face. “It feels... →
Nobody is normal
12/02/2017 - 13:03
This view still guides much of biomedical research; organisms, cells, gene networks and more are routinely perturbed to determine how these... →
How East and West think in profoundly different ways
02/02/2017 - 16:15
As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →
The mystery of the Tunguska meteorite
26/01/2017 - 12:09
What is known is this: on 20 June 1908, a large fireball crossed the sky above the taiga over the Stony Tunguska River, and a mega... →
Sex it’s communication at a biological level
19/01/2017 - 13:37
Most people think just one sperm is needed to fertilise a woman’s egg and make a healthy pregnancy. This underpins a common view that all... →
'Missing element' in Earth's core
15/01/2017 - 14:13
They have been searching for the element for decades, believing it makes up a significant proportion of our planet's centre, after iron and... →
Unified theory of evolution
08/01/2017 - 15:32
The unifying theme for much of modern biology is based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the process of natural selection by which... →
Why Are You So Smart?
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... →

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