Research

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... →

28/02/2016 - 14:32

Before exploring why, however, let’s be more specific about what makes something a sex robot. Technically it could be anything robotic that... →

23/02/2016 - 13:46

Study co-author Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if seas continued to rise as... →

16/02/2016 - 13:58

Let’s be clear: simulated Mars (or sMars) is technically your world. The six of us landed on the big island of Hawaii in late August 2015.... →

09/02/2016 - 13:45

What frogs do without thinking, human researchers are trying, with a great deal of thinking, to replicate. The prize is not the freezing... →

05/02/2016 - 13:02

Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →

28/01/2016 - 16:29

When we get the hang of it, he throws out his first test question: “Have you ever cheated on a test?” The ‘nos’ move their dots to the left... →

22/01/2016 - 18:41

On the other hand it would have to be small enough to accelerate to a fairly high speed, to shorten the voyagers’ time of exposure to... →

17/01/2016 - 17:40

Given that so much of our culture is now predominantly digital, then, how will it last through the centuries? How will all the information... →

12/01/2016 - 18:56

“It’s really sensory deprivation,” says Pattyn. “You have no variation in the outer landscape but also in your social landscape – in winter... →

08/01/2016 - 14:59

Ansell and Co. gave participants a smartphone app that prompted them to record stressful experiences and small acts of kindness, like... →

03/01/2016 - 16:31

Earth-sized world Since surface gravity depends on the star's mass and radius, the method should also help astronomers work out the masses... →

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