“The starships of the future won’t look anything like Star Trek’s Enterprise”

“It’s one thing to build a hypothetical starship — it’s another to actually try living in it. “From the second version of Seeker onward, we started organizing actual isolation missions, like…

“Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar”.”

“Scientifically, The Case Against Sugar suffers from a condition Steven Pinker has called the “Igon Value Problem”. This term describes the tendency of certain science journalists to arrive at obtuse…

“Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence”

“A crucial agent in our limiting definition of intelligence, which has a dark heritage in nineteenth-century biometrics and…

“Bias meets DNA: Students at Pennsylvania college asked to learn their ancestry”

“She wondered: What if people started finding out things they didn’t know about themselves?

So she begins with a short survey asking people their race and what they…

“Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain”

“If you’re feeling overwhelmed, there’s a reason: The processing capacity of the conscious mind is limited. This is a result of how the brain’s attentional system evolved. Our brains have two dominant modes of attention: the task-positive network and the…

“MISSING LINK BETWEEN GUT AND BRAIN DISCOVERED WITH BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR DISEASE”

“The immune cells play several important roles within the body, including guarding against pathogens and triggering allergic reactions. In exploring their role in protecting the brain, the…

“Gaming the system, scientific ‘cartels’ band together to cite each others’ work”

“For authors, the payoff is clear: The more citations your articles generate, the more influential they appear. And journals have similar incentives: Encourage authors to cite papers that…

“Carbon monoxide is toxic. This doctor is out to prove it’s also therapeutic”

““The first three to five years were hell. I thought my career might be over,” Choi said. “But I believed in it. In research, you have to believe your data.”

“Ice Age Emojis Could Rewrite Human History”

“She completed the first Europe-wide comparison of geometric signs and identified 32 that crop up over and over, across space and time. While some might have taken on more than one meaning over the years, their consistency could point to a system of…