Research

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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. “... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

06/03/2016 - 15:24

The journey to love as we know it today began with sex, which was one of the first things life on Earth figured out how to do. Sex began as... →

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