What is synesthesia and what's it like to have it?

I know that the number four is yellow, but I have a friend who insists four is red. She also says four has a motherly personality, but my four has no personality — none of my numbers do. But all…

What is synesthesia and what's it like to have it?

I know that the number four is yellow, but I have a friend who insists four is red. She also says four has a motherly personality, but my four has no personality — none of my numbers do. But all…

Cuttlefish eat less for lunch when they know there’ll be shrimp for dinner

Cuttlefish can rapidly learn from experience and adapt their eating behavior accordingly, a new study has shown.

Social media users ‘copy’ friends’ eating habits

Social media users are more likely to eat fruit and veg — or snack on junk food — if they think their friends do the same, a new study has found.

Poll reveals climate change as most important issue for U.S. adults

A Harris Poll survey – conducted online in December on behalf of the American Psychological Association – reports that more than half of U.S. adults (56%) cite climate change as the most important issue facing the world today.

Smell of Roses, Even During Sleep, Shown to Help Improve Learning Success by as Much as 30%

German researchers found that the scent of roses significantly improved student test scores in English vocabulary classes.

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Increasing opportunities for sustainable behavior

(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) To mitigate climate change and safeguard ecosystems, we need to make drastic changes in our consumption and transport behaviors. A new IIASA study shows how even minor changes to available infrastructure can trigger tipping points in the collective adoption of sustainable behaviors.

Climate crisis: We are not individuals fighting a faceless system — we are the system that needs to change

Our interconnectedness also means that positive behaviours can cascade to influence many others

Move Over, Sudoku—Neurologists Release 3 Online Brain Training Games Scientifically Proven to Work

Scientists from New York University and University of California, Santa Barbara developed the free games specifically to train your cognitive abilities.

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Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Why don’t Extinction Rebellion issue specific ideas? They are awfully vague’

There have been many proposed solutions to the climate crisis – from outright bans on fossil fuels to planting 2 billion trees – but Jonathan Safran Foer’s antidote to global devastation strikes me as the neatest and most achievable. It…