This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds pred 19 urami in 36 minutami Showing this optical illusion to monkeys reveals it works by tricking the neurons that perceive global motion into overriding those that track local motions(New Scientist)
PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug pred 19 urami in 44 minutami Preliminary experiments suggest that a type of blood pressure drug can make it easier to un-learn fear memories, hinting at a possible treatment for PTSD(New Scientist)
Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms 17. februar 2019 (09:00) Samples taken from people’s shoes and phones have been found to contain DNA from nine mysterious and unstudied branches of the bacteria family tree(New Scientist)
AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable 16. februar 2019 (08:00) Autotune can often sound robotic because it shifts off notes into perfect pitch, a new version listens to the notes you've already sung and uses them to help fill in the gaps(New Scientist)
A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities 15. februar 2019 (15:52) The New York Times' online quiz can pinpoint where in the UK or Ireland you grew up by the words you use and how you say them. We asked a linguist to explain why dialects persist(New Scientist)
The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist 15. februar 2019 (14:30) New Scientist went to meet the UK schoolchildren who have left their classrooms to join a global protest that calls for the government to declare a climate emergency(New Scientist)