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How movies use music to manipulate your memory
Around one in five American adults manage to squeeze in watching a movie on a daily...
The Doomsday Clock warns the world about catastrophe – here’s why it stands at 90 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, with its hands hovering close to midnight (“doomsday”), is a...
‘We remain afraid of the future’ – how Palestinian children’s optimism was fading even before this crisis
In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total...
Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit
In a time of war and populism, the world needs quality information and credible...
‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain
In May 1097, during the siege of Nicaea, crusaders catapulted the severed heads...
Climate change is altering animal brains and behavior − a neuroscientist explains how
Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments
From shell-shock to PTSD, a century of invisible war trauma
In the wake of World War I, some veterans returned wounded, but not with obvious...
I’ve researched time for 15 years – here’s how my perception of it has changed
Time is one of those things that most of us take for granted. We spend our lives...
BBC’s emergency Gaza radio broadcasts show why World Service mustn’t rely on digital technology
The BBC has just announced that it will start an emergency radio service for listeners...
Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today
Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals...
How to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts
In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been...
Israel-Hamas war: will the murder of peace activists mean the end of the peace movement?
A profound sense of uncertainty hangs over the future of the peace movement and...
Death toll in Gaza Strip 84% higher than 50-day conflict in 2014: UN report
The number of people killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 is 84% higher than the total number...
How children’s secure attachment sets the stage for positive well-being
Attachment theory — is the idea that how a parent consistently responds to their...
What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
If you live on the East Coast, you may have driven through roundabouts in your neighborhood...
In times of war, digital activism has power. Here’s how to engage responsibly
As armed conflict continues to play out in the Israel–Gaza war, a separate battle...