Katie Spalding
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1 week ago |
iflscience.com | Katie Spalding |Maddy Chapman
“Claiming that […] only humans can detect geometric regularity, is now falsified,” Andreas Nieder, a cognitive neurobiologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told NPR. “Because we have at least the crow [also].”It’s a bold claim – no other non-human animal has ever been shown to possess this ability – but the evidence adds up.
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1 week ago |
iflscience.com | Katie Spalding |Laura Simmons
For Neo- and Paleolithic people, though, such sartorial statements weren’t a priority. Or at least, that’s what we usually assume – imagine a stereotypical “caveman”, and you’re probably picturing a grubby, wild-haired dude sporting fur underpants, a rudimentary arrow, and about three teeth. But that image likely isn’t totally fair.
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2 weeks ago |
iflscience.com | Katie Spalding |Maddy Chapman
What even *is* time? It depends who you ask. As Albert Einstein(’s secretary) used to say: “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”It’s pithy, and not really all that accurate, but it does get across an important truth: that time, or at least our perception of it, is more fluid than we often assume.
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2 weeks ago |
iflscience.com | Katie Spalding |Maddy Chapman
Would you live underground? As the world heats up, there are some people who think that humans becoming a subterranean species is an inevitability – that moving under the Earth’s surface will be the only way to survive the effects of climate change. Of course, there are others who’d live underground just to escape their smartphones.
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3 weeks ago |
iflscience.com | Katie Spalding |Holly Large
Not exactly your average workday. Image credit: YueStock/Shutterstock.comThe year is 1962. The place: Scarasson, a glacial cave in the French Alps. Climbing out of the abyss for the first time in more than two months is a lone man, eyes covered in dark goggles to protect them from the light of the Sun. He has no idea what the date is; he has not interacted with another human in seven weeks.
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