On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

At first, this seems like a paradox with a fundamental law of physics somehow getting broken here, but rather ...

Progress in quantum computing as an industry has been relatively stagnant for a while now. But over the past few weeks, ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

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The study was quite the sensation when it was published in March of 2017. Scientists affiliated with University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa tracked African elephants in the wilds of Botswana ...

The human population has already grown too large and demanding for Earth to sustainably support at current consumption levels, a new study warns. Based on more than two centuries of population data, a ...

(via Big Think) Neuroscientist David Linden breaks down the surprisingly complex machinery behind why you eat, when you stop, and why that system is so easily hijacked by the companies engineering ...