The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And ...

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“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has ...

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Using forests to prop up carbon markets can lead to “perverse effects” on land management, such as cutting out local communities ...

An infinite number of random events can produce just about anything if you have quintillions of years to wait ...

Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some serious weaknesses ...

WHO now admits the COVID virus and other germs spread “through the air.” This plain language may help improve research and action to fight disease ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by a particular optical illusion ...

String theory could provide a theory of everything for our universe—but it entails 10500 (more than a centillion) possible ...