Smart companies place their inventors into siloed groups; this boosts innovation, there is no consensus so people work on what they think is best. Eventually, the best product wins. It also provides…

There is no universal drug that directly eliminates the Ebola virus; however, specific treatments and supportive therapies are now available that can drastically reduce mortality if administered…

How handy would it be if you could make your tattoos invisible for a job interview in the morning, and reveal them again for a party in the evening? This sounds like science fiction, but it may soon…

A new study says we may be born to sexually objectify women. But science can help. Psychologists measure overall objectification, seeing the parts rather than the whole, with an upside-down test…

The spooky is a hugely popular phenomenon in British culture, demonstrated in what now seems like a month-long Halloween celebration, a rich tradition of horror cinema and a growing interest in the…

Zombies have taken many forms in popular culture. In Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, corpses climb out of their graves and perform an impressively coordinated dance. In HBO’s “The Last of…

In the real world, currency and production are not a zero-sum game that someone needs to control and in social currency, it is much the same, according to social psychologists. Investing in the…

In a recent study, researchers sent signals from a sensor detecting tactile patterns associated with different Braille letters that were received by brain organoids. Individual organoids were able to…

Halloween is one of the few holidays centered around children. When else can students come to school dressed like astronauts, monsters and witches, or ring strangers’ doorbells to ask for candy? But…

Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside…

Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect…

In the 1970s, two major advances happened and they led to a renewed desire for the simpler time of folklore: GMO insulin and the Concorde supersonic jet. Though English activists hadn't invented the…

Image Recently I started a new peer-reviewed journal at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition research. The journal, titled "AI…

The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today. Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive species. The…

This is the second post reporting a few tests of the Radiacode 110 spectrometer, an extra-cool pocket dosimeter/radiation counter/spectrograph sold by RadiaCode. I have had the chance today to test…

There's an asymmetrical dilemma among native populations, say ecologists. They should be opposed to oil extraction, because they are told to be, but many are not. Instead, they welcome progress even…

In a new Lancet paper, 98 real urgent care patients corresponded with a Google DeepMind (Gemini et al.) medical LLM before their appointment with a physician. Though as a society we stopped doing…

No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s! Lately I am observing how many colleagues young and old --experimental particle physicists, mostly working at LHC experiments--…

It has never been easier for us to access images of people being harmed, maimed and killed. Two recent cases have focused on very different, prominent stories of sharing graphic footage of deaths.…

Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.…