How To Be Funny: Attack People

How To Be Funny: Attack People

LAUGHTER IS CLOSELY RELATED TO FEAR, RESEARCHERS FIND HONG KONG, March 2, 2015 The surest way to make someone laugh is to attack them, researchers said this week. Humor is rooted in fear, and…
Great Barrier Reef Corals Eat Plastic

Great Barrier Reef Corals Eat Plastic

Researchers in Australia have found that corals commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef will eat micro-plastic pollution - but there are obviously limits. Microplastics are tiny fragments of…
How Brain Waves Guide Memory Formation

How Brain Waves Guide Memory Formation

Our brains generate a constant hum of activity: As neurons fire, they produce brain waves that oscillate at different frequencies. Long thought to be merely a byproduct of neuron activity, recent…