How Insect Societies Share Brain Power

How Insect Societies Share Brain Power

The society you live in can shape the complexity of your brain--and it does so differently for social insects than for humans and other vertebrate animals. A new comparative study of social and…
New Mars Colony Mission To Be Crowdfunded

New Mars Colony Mission To Be Crowdfunded

A new international project aiming to establish a human colony on Mars will be crowdfunded. The MarsPolar venture, that plans to create the first settlement on the Red Planet around 2029,…
New Mechanism For Male Infertility Discovered

New Mechanism For Male Infertility Discovered

A new study in Sweden links male infertility to autoimmune prostatic inflammation.   Infertility - involuntary childlessness - is common, and in half of all cases attributable to infertility in…
I Think, Therefore I Am A Math Expert

I Think, Therefore I Am A Math Expert

There are more men in hard science and engineering and there are a variety of explanations for why, everything from the sexism notion, promoted by those in the social sciences, to the idea that the…
Heartbeat Linked To Female Libido

Heartbeat Linked To Female Libido

Sexual dysfunction in women can be linked to low resting heart rate variability, a finding that could help clinicians treat the condition, according to a study by psychologists from The University…
How Intrusive Are Face Recognition Technologies?

How Intrusive Are Face Recognition Technologies?

A telecommunications law academic in Australia has recommended for laws to be enacted criminalising the application of face recognition technology to visual images online that enable the identity of…