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Scientists Put Cats, Dogs And Toddlers In The Same Helping Test. Cats Had A Very Different Answer
A missing dishwashing sponge became the unlikely centerpiece of an experiment that tested whether animals would step in when a human appeared to need help. Researchers in Budapest watched as cats, dogs and toddlers saw an object being hidden, then watched their caregiver search for it without ever being directly asked to intervene. The results…
Scientists Built Glasses That Let Humans See What Our Eyes Normally Miss
There is a huge part of the world passing through your eyes every second that you have never been able to see. Infrared radiation comes from warm engines, human bodies and everyday electronics, yet the human retina simply ignores it. Now, researchers in China have built a tiny wearable device that converts some of that…
Your Brain May Actually Fall Into Sync With People Around You
For years, “being on the same wavelength” sounded like a nice way to describe two people who instantly connected. Now researchers have found a way to measure part of what that phrase may actually mean inside the brain. Scientists using portable EEG headsets have found that people’s brain activity can become more synchronized during shared…
A 16-Year ADHD Study Just Turned One Major Assumption On Its Head
For years, researchers had a straightforward expectation about ADHD: as life becomes more demanding, managing the condition should become harder. A new study that followed people with ADHD for 16 years found something that went in the opposite direction. Researchers tracked 483 people diagnosed with ADHD during childhood, and their symptoms did not simply remain…
Scientists Say Earth Could Eventually Have Just 4 Billion People
What if the biggest environmental solution on Earth had nothing to do with electric cars, solar panels or recycling, but with the number of people living on the planet? A new paper from 11 researchers across 10 countries has proposed a future global population of roughly 4 billion people by 2200, less than half the…
Scientists Found The Mushroom Behind The Tiny People Hallucinations
A mushroom served across parts of southwest China comes with an unusually specific warning: wait before eating it, or you might start seeing tiny people. That strange effect has been documented in hospital records and firsthand accounts for decades. Now researchers have sequenced dozens of specimens and discovered something even more puzzling. The usual mushroom…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
People Keep Eating This Mushroom, Then They Start Seeing Tiny People
A mushroom that looks ordinary enough to end up on a dinner plate is responsible for one of the strangest recurring medical complaints in parts of China. During mushroom season, hospitals in Yunnan Province see hundreds of people who arrive feeling dizzy or disoriented, only to describe something far more unusual: tiny human-like figures apparently…
Scientists Calculated How Many Calories Are in a Human, and the Answer Is Surprisingly High
The average human body contains enough edible muscle to provide more than 32,000 calories, and when organs, fat, and other edible tissues are included, that figure climbs to an astonishing 143,771 calories. On paper, those numbers make humans sound like a surprisingly valuable food source, especially during times of famine when every calorie can mean…
Science Says People Who Enjoy Dark Humor May Have Higher Intelligence
Most people have at least one friend who laughs at jokes that make everyone else pause in disbelief. Whether it’s a clever joke about death, an awkward medical situation, or a wildly inappropriate punchline, dark humor has always divided opinion. Some see it as offensive, while others argue it’s simply another form of intelligent comedy…