Passage A An international protest this week aims to demonstrate the truth about homeopathy-that there/s literally nothing in it, says Martin Robbins AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more …
Passage Hypnosis is “a special psychological state with certain physiological attributes， resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other …
Passage A This is ludicrous! We can talk to people anywhere in the world or fly to meet them in a few hours. We can even send probes to …
Passage Could better design cure our throw away culture? A Jonathan Chapman, a senior lecture at the University of Brighton, UK, is one of a new breed of ‘sustainable …
Passage A As a title for a supposedly unprejudiced debate on scientific progress, “Panic attack: interrogating our obsession with risk” did not bode well. Held last week at the …
Passage A In 1937 the great neuroscientist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of the University of Oxford laid out what would become a classic description of the brain at work. …
Passage A It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone, so most …
Passage A In Robert Plomin’s line of work, patience is essential. Plomin, a behavioral geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, wants to understand the nature of intelligence. …
Passage A No one doubts that intelligence develops as children grow older. Yet the oncept of intelligence has proved both quite difficult to define in unambiguous terms and unexpectedly …
Passage A While it may not be possible to completely age-proof our brains, a brave new world of anti-aging research shows that our gray matter may be far more …
