Seeing better. Through not seeing. Descartes and the wisdom of Silenus…
Visual acuity is normally thought to be dictated by the shape and condition of the eye but these new findings …
Category Archives: Existence
Neurons, plants and the mystery of patterns…
Plants and brains are more alike than you might think. Salk scientists discovered that the mathematical rules governing how plants …
Caesar breath… Your breath…
Julius Caesar could have stayed home on March 15, 44 B.C. But mocking the soothsayer who had predicted his death, …
The transition to life. mRNA translation. The futility of life questions.
The transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life’s most remarkable transformations. Yet little is known …
Lying. Me? Or you? Feeling unique. [How people distance themselves – or the cosmos – from their lies]
Professor Paul Taylor of Lancaster University in the UK said: “Science has long known that people’s use of language changes …