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After more than two years and 769 posts, the Short Sharp Science blog is changing.
All the blogs are merging to become one super-blog, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology, environment, and ideas.
The changes also incorporate a new URL, so visit the new, Short Sharp Science blog here.
For those [...]
Did you live a coddled childhood filled with unbridled playtime and few reminders of the harsh real world? You might have been dumber as a result.
Children coaxed into a jovial mood performed worse on a simple test of geometric shape recognition than kids put in a dourer mood, report Simone Schnall, of the University of [...]
We know that a frightening proportion of US teachers teach creationism and intelligent design in science class. Now, to the dismay of many scientists in the UK, the director of education for the Royal Society, Michael Reiss, has called for creationism to be taught in biology classes in the UK.
Reiss, an evolutionary biologist but also [...]
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We know that a frightening proportion of US teachers teach creationism and intelligent design in science class. Now, to the dismay of many scientists in the UK, the director of education for the Royal Society, Michael Reiss, has called for creationism to be taught in biology classes in the UK.
Reiss, an evolutionary biologist but also [...]
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Praise be to Darwin!
We are gathered here today to give thanks to those scientists who have given us something to sustain our spirits in this time of religious vacuity. Not that we believe there is such a thing as a spirit, or a soul, but you know what I mean.
This, I imagine, is the [...]
Though neuroscience will never peer inside of Luke Skywalker or Yoda’s head to find the brain region responsible for feeling the Force, a new study comes close.
Trained Zen Buddhists return to a state of inner calm faster than people who don’t practice meditation, according to neuroscientist Giuseppe Pagnoni and his colleagues at Emory University in [...]
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This week, New Scientist will be telling you all about the common cold: why researchers are treating it with new respect, and what the chances are that we will ever cure it (hint: humans could be walking on the moon again first). But in writing the article, I ran into a staggering amount of mis- [...]
Guys: have you got a hot mom? Chances are your wife will be a looker, too. The same goes for daughters of hunky fathers.
Women tend to date guys that look like their fathers, and sons go for gals that look like their mothers, according to a new study of facial similarities between romantic partners and [...]
Reading Barack Obama’s responses to the top 14 questions addressing Science and Technology issues in America, as posed by ScienceDebate2008.com, I get the distinct feeling that he fears America is falling behind in the scientific rat race.
Although Obama asserts that America’s “talent for innovation is still the envy of the world”, it sometimes seems he [...]
