Coming of Age review: Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers
[ad_1] Teenage cliques can offer protection – or enforce exclusion Virginia Woods-Jack/Millennium Images, UK Coming of AgeLucy Foulkes (Bodley Head (UK); Vintage Digital (US)) In the
People with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from spending time with horses
[ad_1] Horses are big and strong, but often quiet, which may comfort people with Alzheimer’s disease Halfpoint/Getty Images/iStockphoto Spending time with horses seems to make
Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the risk of leaks
[ad_1] Existing menstrual pads can lead to leaks Vittoria/Alamy Menstrual products that cause blood to form a solid gel-like substance, rather than be absorbed, seem
The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago
[ad_1] The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population decline Wirestock, Inc./Alamy The Neolithic culture in Europe that produced megastructures such as Stonehenge went
Lions’ record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera
[ad_1] Brothers Jacob and Tibu in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda Alex Braczkowski A pair of lion brothers have made the longest swim ever recorded
Speed of decision-making reflects our biases
[ad_1] The speed with which we reach a decision can reveal the strength of our biases David Williams/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a large group
A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved
[ad_1] We may be closer to understanding one of the mysteries of breastfeeding Svetlana Repnitskaya/Getty Images A newly discovered hormone in mice may solve the
How a simple physics experiment could reveal dark matter hiding in an extra dimension
[ad_1] We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we
Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science
[ad_1] Shutterstock/Marko Aliaksandr Imagine if governments around the world announced restrictions on the sale of rulers that are 34 centimetres long. You would be pretty
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?
[ad_1] Whale remains being eaten by a tiger shark and other scavengers on the seabed Laura Gourgas Computer models could help predict the drift of