Brain

06/04/2020 - 15:46

“Mr President, I want to raise an issue that I think has been lurking out there for two or three weeks and cast it specifically in national... →

12/03/2020 - 20:00

New discoveries in gross anatomy—the study of bodily structures at the macroscopic level—are now rare, and their significance is often... →

12/02/2020 - 12:50

It is around this time that we say people are “actively dying”, and we usually think this means they have two to three days to live. A... →

19/01/2020 - 14:25

Phil Kennedy stared at the glasses for a moment. Then his gaze drifted up to the ceiling and over to the television. “Uh … uh … ai … aiee... →

30/12/2019 - 13:47

We depend on this organ to live and learn, but much about this organ still remains as mysterious to us as the inside of a black hole. Every... →

09/12/2019 - 12:54

The most obvious method, which we all do from time to time, is to skim read, glancing through the text and flicking through the pages to... →

26/11/2019 - 13:57

This normal-looking suburban couple weren’t exactly like other parents. Roy was an AI and robotics expert at MIT, Patel an eminent speech... →

21/11/2019 - 18:47

When instant answers just appear to pop into our minds, the Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman refers to this as "... →

22/10/2019 - 17:04

magine that a person’s brain could be scanned in great detail and recreated in a computer simulation. The person’s mind and... →

15/09/2019 - 13:31

As legend has it, after a booze-soaked evening at a local bar, Hemingway was given their six-toed ancestor, “Snow White,” by a waylaid ship... →

31/08/2019 - 12:53

In the early years of the aids epidemic, there were all kinds of theories about what was causing it: toxicity from drug use... →

25/06/2019 - 17:51

The boarding school where I was a pupil in the 1990s provided the perfect microcosm for anyone interested in how “survival of the fittest”... →

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