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New malaria vaccines may not be the panacea drugs people are hoping for. Here’s why
New vaccine to eradicate malaria: The vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy ...
Viewpoint: Hard-wired gender — Don’t believe claims that there are almost no differences between male and female brains
Men’s and women’s brains are biased to notice and process different aspects of the social and physical world ...
Viewpoint: When it comes to the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we need to separate valid concerns from unfounded fears
Questioning how humans want to relate to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming decades need not be muddled together with ...
Viewpoint: How did science become a messy jumble of politics?
Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really ...
The Hidden Spring: Controversial new book addresses where consciousness originates
Viewpoint: Why and how does the subjective quality of experience arise from objective neurophysiological events? ...
Questioning the miracle of life: How did an inanimate universe ‘create’ fire, water and humans?
How did an inanimate universe become animate? That question has been the cause of wars and the inspiration for many ...
Viewpoint: UFOs are in fashion again. Does latest surge in sightings suggest that aliens are amongst us?
Webzine Debrief published startling claims: US government and its allies have in their possession "intact and partially intact craft of ...
Is there a male-female ‘orgasm gap’? Unlocking the mystery of female sexual selection
Every second of every day, across the face of planet Earth, there are 18,000 ejaculations of sperm, and 4.4 births ...
Viewpoint: Irrational moralizing or appropriate caution — Should we be concerned about AI models that profile humans by ‘race’?
In recent years, a wealth of literature has emerged exploring how AI and machine learning (ML) can improve diagnostic precision ...
Viewpoint: About the backlash faced by JK Rowling arguing against a ’sex spectrum’—Evolutionary biologist says maybe she was right
JK Rowling recently drew fire on social media for tweeting the statements to the effect that “biological sex is real.” ...
How do genetics and luck mix to determine life’s winners and losers?
Let’s begin with a question: Why do some people succeed in life while others fail? Is it because they are ...
Is evolution denial an attempt to ‘make humans special’?
Evolutionary biology has always been controversial. Not controversial among biologists, but controversial among the general public. This is largely because ...
No strings attached: Why are men more interested in casual sex?
First, is there any truth in [gender] stereotypes? And second, if there is, why? The answer to the first question, ...
Why cognitive inequality demands our attention
[April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant used] two rifles and a shotgun stashed inside a sports bag on the passenger seat ...
Video: Looking back at groundbreaking twins research—and its impact on genetics
“I have looked at the data, and I’m collecting the data, and I’m still absolutely astounded. I still haven’t settled ...
Traits of masculinity: What does it mean to ‘be a man’?
There are commonalities of human behavior that extend beyond any geographic or cultural boundary. Every known society has a sexual ...
Why don’t more women pursue STEM fields? There’s no easy answer
Many academics in the modern world seem obsessed with the sex difference in engagement with science, technology, mathematics, and engineering ...
Viewpoint: Gender equity debate demands understanding of biological differences
[Editor's notes: Marta Iglesias is a predoctoral researcher in the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon. Her research is focused on how ...
Decrying ‘neurosexism’: Are attempts to find biological gender differences justified?
“Neurosexism,” “populist science,” “neurotrash,” the problem with using terms like these to describe scientific investigations of sex differences is that ...
Genes trump parenting in shaping who we are
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I want you to ...
