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, ...

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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 ...

For most of human history, the origin of life was a religious question. Darwin made it a scientific one. But now scientists have created an artificial species designed entirely by artificial ...

“We have an expression: to be on the same wavelength. It’s not just an abstraction. Research shows that it’s real,” says professor and brain researcher Anne-Kristin Solbakk. In the early 2000s, ...

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 ...