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Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds
“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that “once...
58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change – we scoured 77,000 studies to map the pathways
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans...
Rise of precision agriculture exposes food system to new threats
Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite...
Even scientists can’t keep up with all the newly discovered particles – our new naming scheme could help
Physicists at Cern have discovered a plethora of new exotic particles being created...
Amnesty says most Israelis fear seeing Palestine flag
A new survey conducted by Amnesty International has revealed that most Israelis...
The tongue: how one of the body’s most sensitive organs is helping blind people ‘see’
Ever wondered why kissing feels better than holding hands? The tongue is a pretty...
Footprints take science a step closer to understanding southern Africa’s dinosaurs
Dinosaurs have captured people’s imaginations more than any other ancient creatures
Shining fluorescent light on bee sperm could help explain colony survival
Form follows function. This is the principle that the design or shape of something...
Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health
Humans have an evolutionary preference for sweetness. Sweet foods, like fruit and...
Mixed messages: Is coffee good or bad for us? It might help, but it doesn’t enhance health
Coffee is good for you. Or it’s not. Maybe it is, then it isn’t, then it is again....
Babies can learn language sounds in the first few hours of being born – new research
We often think of babies as blank canvases with little ability to learn during the...
Eating less food from animal sources is key to reducing the risk of wildlife-origin diseases and global warming
The world is at greater risk of infectious diseases that originate in wildlife because...
Nudge theory doesn’t work after all, says new evidence review – but it could still have a future
At the end of last year (2021), there was lots of excitement about the first comprehensive...
Iran plans to begin building new nuclear reactor in Isfahan
Iran will, in the next few weeks, begin to build a nuclear research reactor at the...
Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions
Removing several hundred billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere is now considered...
Hepatitis in children: scientists have found a possible cause for the mystery outbreak
Between April and July of this year, 1,010 cases of severe hepatitis without any...