Category: Insight
Rethinking Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease
Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs.
What is Space Made of? An Astrophysics Expert Explains all the Components – from Radiation to Dark Matter – Found in the Vacuum of Space
Nilakshi Veerabathina at The Conversation: Space, or outer space, is a vast, near-perfect vacuum largely…
Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why.
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Alzheimer’s disease slowly takes over the mind. Long before…
How Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised…
This AI Learns Continuously From New Experiences—Without Forgetting Its Past
Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks….
Are Our Worldviews Structured by Language?
by James McElvenny at Aeon Magazine: Anyone who has learned a second language will have…
Gray Matters: A Neurosurgeon’s Inside Look at the Brain
by Erica Good at the Undark: Many years ago, I read a book about neurosurgery…
Enough Water Has Been Found to Cover the Surface of the Red Planet – But There’s a Catch
The team used the same techniques used to search for water on Earth, or to look for oil and gas. They were excited to make their discovery but…
What Your Brain Is Really Doing When Doing “Nothing”
The OEF is defined as the ratio of oxygen used by the brain to oxygen delivered by flowing blood and is remarkably uniform in the awake but resting state…
Finding Beauty in Biological Spaces
Shelby Bradford in The Scientist: Beata Mierzwa studies cell division as a postdoctoral researcher at the University…
When Self-Correction in Science Goes Wrong
For more than a decade I have evaluated the so-called “billion dollar disaster” tabulation promoted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
How Russia Trains its Deep Undercover Spies
Moscow’s elite ‘illegal’ sleeper agents pose as foreigners and live under false identities known as ‘legends,’ often for decades