Emily Willingham
New teaching tactics? Verbal and spatial skills may be inextricably linked in the brain
When students use spatial skills in the classroom, the benefits extend beyond spatial understanding to other kinds of thinking, such ...
Most of us are more likely to trust AI-generated faces than actual humans
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA provides a measure of how far ...
How can we deal with information overload?
Neuroergonomics researchers are looking at what can be done to break through the chaos. They are following what happens in ...
Is an exercise pill possible?
Most of us know that getting our move on can mean a boost to mental and neurological health. But what ...
Solving the problem of death: 150 seems to be an outer age limit, and here’s why
In Silicon Valley, immortality is sometimes elevated to the status of a corporeal goal. Plenty of big names in big ...
Brain Computer Interface: How BCI implants can transform thoughts into spoken words
More than 15 years ago, a man who was only 20 years old had a massive stroke when a major ...
Fact check: Breakthrough infections from Delta or other COVID variants does not mean vaccines don’t work
Endless news cycles and viral social media warn of “breakthrough infections” in people already vaccinated for COVID-19. These reports leave ...
Were self awareness and the ability to plan what set us apart from Neanderthals?
We bear a trace of Neandertal legacy in our genome, a bequest from ancestral interbreeding. But some experts argue that, ...
How ancient humans ‘self-domesticated’ their own faces to appear more friendly
One hypothesis for how humans transitioned from developing a robust Neandertal visage in maturity to retaining finer features throughout life ...
Why is it so hard to think straight when you’re tired? Here’s what’s going on in your brain
Most of us could use more sleep. We feel it in our urge for an extra cup of coffee and ...
Women’s sex drive can be boosted with testosterone. Long-term risks need to be studied.
An absence of desire is not an inevitable facet of aging for women, [endocrinologist Susan] Davis says. There’s a name ...
Do participants in genetics research studies have the right to know—or not know—about troubling DNA results?
Is it possible to know too much about our own genetic profile? ...
Artificial intelligence could have a future diagnosing sick children, study says
With the money and time that visits to the ER and urgent care soak up, the chance to revisit old-fashioned ...
Can this ancient plant-based hallucinogen lead to new diabetes treatment?
For centuries, some indigenous groups in South America have relied on a brew made from the parts of a local ...
Repairing paralysis? ‘Growth cocktail’ shows promise for severed nerves
[R]esearchers have coaxed nerve cells to span the divide of a complete spinal cord injury. Their findings, described August 29 in Nature, ...
Could studying rare Parkinson’s mutation help treat other cases?
A handful of gene mutations are linked to inherited PD, but they account for less than 15 percent of the ...
Schizophrenia, depression, biopolar disorder share ‘overlapping’ mutations
Is lower academic achievement in early life tied to the same gene changes as an increased risk for Alzheimer’s in ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to stop drawing links between mercury and autism
[Editor's note: Emily Willingham is a science writer and co-author of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four ...
No, you did not inherit your intelligence from your mother’s genes
The premise of [a post from Second Nexus is] that science has traced “intelligence genes” to the X chromosome and ...
Multiple studies, with and without conflicts of interest, find no glyphosate in breast milk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The herbicide glyphosate does not ...
Deepak Chopra alert: Psychologists assess your bullshit detecting senses
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In what may well ...
Proper training for scientists will allow FOIA to coexist with science communication
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Researchers ...
Oliver Sacks’ greatest legacy: Understanding those who are ‘different’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Oliver Sacks died August ...
Genes for enjoying speed protective against ADHD and schizophrenia
A euphoric response to amphetamine could signal the presence of gene variants associated with protection against attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...
Neanderthal link to fat metabolism in the brain
Modern humans of European descent have a lot in common with their Neanderthal ancestors when it comes to genes related ...
How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
Genetically engineered tomatoes squashed?
After using modern techniques to develop and test tomatoes for desired qualities, researchers will turn to more conventional hybrid breeding ...
Science and GMOs are not the bad guys here
Blogger Beth Hoffman, who is like me a Forbes contributor, tells us in a garbled polemic against genetically modified (GM) foods that, ...
