Cuttlefish in 3D Glasses – Trevor Wardill

The social dimension of political values

The endorsement of political values may not be due to internal predispositions, but rather the result of social influence and reinforcement.

We only believe in news that we doctored ourselves

Study finds that right-wing and leftist people believe in fake news to the same extent, so long as it fulfills their wishes.

Sucking salt out of water

Scientists have developed a synthetic mangrove that generates sufficient negative pressure to remove salts and minerals from brackish water through reverse osmosis.

Anti-intellectualism and rejecting science

Those who hold anti-intellectual mindsets found to be even more unlikely to endorse scientific views when informed of the consensus on those views.

Cracking the dark matter mystery

Scientists put forward a new sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the universe during the Big Bang.

Good enough green technologies

The implementation of existing technologies could mitigate some otherwise very costly impacts of climate change by strongly contributing to the reduction of climate change impacts.

Not a ‘math person’?

Strong problem-solving & language abilities found to be a better predictor of programming speed and accuracy than math skills.

Upcoming guests

Amalia Bastos from the The University of Auckland will join us to discuss her article “The Kea show three signatures of domain-general statistical inference”  [email us to submit a question].

Courtney Coughenour and Jennifer Pharr from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will join us to discuss their article “Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians”  [email us to submit a question].

Akchousanh Rasphone from the University of Oxford will join us to discuss her article “Documenting the demise of tiger and leopard, and the status of other carnivores and prey, in Lao PDR’s most prized protected area: Nam Et – Phou Louey” [email us to submit a question].

Veronica Sevillano from the University of Madrid will join us to discuss her chapter “Animals as social groups: An intergroup relations analysis of human-animal conflicts” [already recorded].

Jeremy Gunawardena from Harvard University will join us to discuss his article “A complex hierarchy of avoidance behaviors in a single-cell eukaryote” [already recorded].