Browsing: Lens_biology

Imagine that tomorrow I were to show you a newspaper article describing a deadly wildfire. Do you think you’d be more upset upon reading that 10,000 people died than if you read that five people died? This scenario makes people engage in affective forecasting—predicting their future emotional states. We expect that hearing about 10,000 deaths […]

What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped.

It’s time to relax about genetic testing.

Our inability to care for ourselves as babies is a key to the genius of our species.

Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee takes us into the neurology of creativity.

Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity.

The way to tap your inner Hemingway is not how you think.

The way to tap your inner Hemingway is not how you think.

For elephants, feet are sensory organs.Martin Harvey, Getty Images It’s pretty obvious that dogs have sharper ears and cats a keener sense of smell than we do. But as powerful these senses are, they are merely keener versions of the ones we humans possess. The animal kingdom also boast some senses that are arguably more […]