Scientists trained 14 honeybees to do simple arithmetic with color-coded shapes, calling into question the relationship between brain size and intelligence.
Amanda Feilding: ‘LSD can get deep down and reset the brain – like shaking up a snow globe’. The campaign to legalise LSD in Britain is gathering pace. Psychedelics may have a role to play in treating everything from alcohol addiction to Alzheimer’s disease to post-traumatic stress disorder.
What the 'meat paradox' reveals about moral decision making: Many people eat factory-farmed meat while also abhorring animal cruelty. In this adaptation from her new book, the psychological scientist Dr Julia Shaw explains what the “meat paradox” can tell us about moral decision making.
Scientists make an environmentally friendly prototype water purifier constructed from a sheet of graphitic carbon nitride that could remove 99.9999% of microbes, and purified a 10L water sample in less than one hour using only sunlight.
It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity - the fossil industry’s behavior constitutes a Crime Against Humanity in the classical sense: “a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack”.
Extra Dimensions Give Optimization a Boost - The computation of stable atomic structures can be greatly accelerated if performed in a space with extra dimensions
YSK That chiropractic spinal manipulation has been found to be causally linked to stroke as well as cervical cord oedema and carotid artery dissections.