Cognitively enhanced lawyers may one day work in our courts. A recent report from The Law Society of England and Wales suggests…
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The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of…
Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply…
Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler famously quipped: People aren’t dumb, the world is hard. Indeed, we routinely encounter problems in our…
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and…
In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised…
Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks…
Infectious diseases such as malaria remain a leading cause of death in many regions. This is partly because people there…
Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under…
It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance.…