Russell Moul

6 days ago | iflscience.com | Russell Moul |Maddy Chapman

It is easy to be consumed by the 24-hour news cycle, but there are good reasons to disengage from it. Dr. Russell MoulRussell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Science WriterEditedbyMaddy ChapmanMaddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York. Times are tough, the news is filled with worrying things, and too much time spent with it can impact our health.

6 days ago | iflscience.com | Russell Moul |Laura Simmons

Evolution may be a one-way system, preventing certain reversals in its trajectory. Dr. Russell MoulRussell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Science WriterEditedbyLaura SimmonsLaura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London. Can complex adaptive traits be recovered if a species loses them?

6 days ago | iflscience.com | Russell Moul |Laura Simmons

He's cute, he's wearing a tiny harness, and he's saving lives. He's a HeroRAT. Dr. Russell MoulRussell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Science WriterEditedbyLaura SimmonsLaura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London. Ronin with his trainer, Phanny.

1 week ago | iflscience.com | Russell Moul |Laura Simmons

Reasoning skills are pretty important. They underpin many of humanity’s greatest intellectual achievements – from mathematics, philosophy, and science, to pub quizzes, internet memes, and overly competitive games of Scrabble. Given its significance in human affairs, reason itself has been the subject of centuries of academic interest, but our understanding of the relationship between reasoning abilities and other cognitive processes, as well as their neuroanatomical basis, is still quite limited.

1 week ago | iflscience.com | Russell Moul |Laura Simmons

The last time a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) was reliably spotted in the Californian wildlands was in the spring of 1924, in Sequoia National Park. Prior to this, at the time of the Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were estimated to be 10,000 grizzlies in the state. However, after years of persecution and habitat loss, they were eventually eradicated around two thirds of a century later.