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Mind Hacks: The persuasive power of false confessionsThe APS Observer magazine has a fantastic article on the power of false confessions to warp our perception of other evidence in a criminal case to the point where expert witnesses will change their judgements of unrelated evidence to make it fit the false admission of guilt. We tend to think ...
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Overcoming Bias : Panspermia ConfirmedNew Scientist: It’s arguably the most scrutinised piece of rock ever. Now an even closer look at a meteorite from Mars suggests it may show signs of life after all. … One area of disagreement centred around nanocrystal magnetites in the rock, some of which appear to have chemical and physical ...
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Without maths we’re lost in a dark labyrinth | Marcus du Sautoy - Times OnlineIt’s the glue that binds scientific and artistic cultures. The language of number and symmetry is spoken everywhere.
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: You told me that already! Why we're so poor at remembering to whom we told whatIt can take some bottle to share an anecdote, so it's somewhat harsh when your friend shoots you down with an impatient accusation that you've told them this story before. You'd think they'd be more understanding - most of us seem to be far better at remembering who's told us what compared with ...
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Foreign subtitles can help comprehension of a second language in a regional accentMy recent efforts at speaking French whilst in the French-speaking part of Switzerland mostly provoked derisory laughter from the natives, so I know all about difficulties with accent and pronunciation. According to a new study, I could benefit from watching French films with French, but not ...
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First Collisions in the LHC! | Cosmic Variance | Discover MagazineThe LHC circulated two counter-rotating beams today, and a few hours ago the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event, shown in the display above. This is a fantastic milestone for the LHC and the experiments!
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too.
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Into the Uncanny Valley § SEEDMAGAZINE.COMA dead body appears in almost every way to be a normal human. But the pallid skin and empty eyes signal that the person-shaped form we are looking at is, in a way we can’t even fully grasp, strange and disturbing. We feel a similar eeriness when interacting with robots and models that look ...
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Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language : Not Exactly Rocket ScienceToday, a new paper published in Nature adds another chapter to the story of FOXP2, a gene with important roles in speech and language. The FOXP2 story is a fascinating tale that I covered in New Scientist last year. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of so I'm reprinting it here with kind ...
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NASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar CraterNASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar Crater MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The ...
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