mind
08/09/2016 - 11:58
The political lens
There is now a mountain of evidence to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific... →
13/05/2016 - 17:51
Nevertheless, numerous lines of research, particularly on athletes, have given us compelling insights into the physiological 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... →
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... →
31/03/2016 - 14:30
There is also a deeper message laid bare within our futurist projections. Our notions about the emergence of intelligent machines expose... →
29/02/2016 - 13:33
The training involved a non-emotional “executive control task” of identifying whether a target arrow points to the right or to the left,... →
06/12/2015 - 16:30
Sarcasm involves constructing or exposing contradictions between intended meanings. The most common form of verbal irony, sarcasm is often... →
05/11/2015 - 15:29
Bumpology
The story starts with a collection of dozens of tiny ceramic heads – all different shapes and sizes – kept at the Science Museum... →
15/10/2015 - 14:53
That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms. Microbes in your gut... →
27/09/2015 - 13:12
Also this week, the Office for National Statistics published its geographical league table of personal wellbeing in the UK, compiled by... →
22/09/2015 - 11:52
Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, who led the research, published earlier this year, has a name for this remarkable collaboration: a "... →