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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?
We will never know who spoke the first sentence or what they said, but we can have some…
Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
CAREER FEATURE 09 December 2024 Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at…
Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs
Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways Modern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski…
An Uncertain Future Requires Uncertain Prediction Skills
We live in an Age of Uncertainty. Not just because of the global threats to societies, but many…
Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research
Attending a psychology conference this month, I was struck by an unsettling trend in social-science research. The abstract…
New schizophrenia drug could treat Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism…
How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis
A client (left) has a counselling session with a lay therapist on a Friendship Bench in Harare.Credit: Jekesai…
There’s a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study
A person in a gorilla suit can be easy to miss if you are focusing on something else…
How can I help a friend who is relentlessly negative about life?
“Offering emotional support should, of course, be central to any good relationship” Skynesher/Getty Images After one of my…
Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial ‘energy factories’ come in two different types
Download the Nature Podcast 6 November 2024 In this episode: 00:46 Mitochondria divide their labour to help cells…