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Harnessing the Genomics Revolution
08/05/2016 - 12:11
The area where genomics-driven innovations have attracted the most attention is health. Rapid progress toward truly “personalized medicine... →
Sci-Hub is providing science publishers
03/05/2016 - 10:54
This contrasts with the ideas some had about the conditions when researchers were likely to turn to Sci-Hub instead of ordinary legal... →
The West Dies With Its Gods?
28/04/2016 - 17:16
Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century’s end, other peoples and... →
Why are people so incredibly gullible?
22/04/2016 - 15:28
One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than... →
How many people can our planet really support?
18/04/2016 - 12:12
"It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption... →
We don't know which species should be classed as "human"
06/04/2016 - 15:57
"That's the $64,000 question," says Jeffrey Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US. The problem arguably begins with... →
The enormous power of the unconscious brain
31/03/2016 - 15:00
Both Eagleman and Naber had their brain activity monitored via an electroencephalogram (EEG). The difference was stark. Eagleman’s brain... →
The wolves of Tel Aviv: economic terrorism
27/03/2016 - 14:11
When Dan Guralnek immigrated from Australia to Israel in 2012, he did not anticipate becoming involved in an international internet scam. “... →
The surprising benefits of swearing
22/03/2016 - 15:45
Our curses may not even use the same part of the brain the rest of our vocabulary inhabits. Swearing is handled by the brain differently... →
Chemonoia; the fear blinding our minds to real dangers
18/03/2016 - 13:42
The origins of chemonoia can be traced to the 1960s, with mounting concerns about the use of pesticides such as DDT. The cheerleader of... →
Does mental illness enhance creativity
13/03/2016 - 18:02
One of the difficulties is that it isn’t very easy to define or measure creativity, so researchers often use proxies for it. For example, a... →
Pew Study: Iincreasing polarization in Israel
09/03/2016 - 15:43
The various Jewish communities in Israel have become so polarized, the report found, that secular Jews would prefer that their child marry... →

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