Let’s hear it for psychology, a better than average science
9 May 2018
It’s often derided as a pseudoscience, but every once in a while experimental psychology delivers a result that changes the way we think about ourselves
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It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect
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The benefits trees bring to our lives are now being quantified by a band of treeconomists, an approach that could help us give trees the respect they deserve
China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?
9 May 2018
Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment
There is no secret burial chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb
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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon
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Ever since Colombia signed a historic peace deal with the FARC guerrillas, farmers and criminal gangs have been burning its portion of the Amazon rainforest
Hawaii volcano is causing havoc and will spew lava for days
8 May 2018
The Kilauea volcano is unlikely to erupt explosively, but it will probably keep pumping out devastating lava for many days to come
Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought
7 May 2018
Tourism is being blamed for 8 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and it emits more every year – making it harder to stop dangerous climate change
Creative people are 90 per cent more likely to get schizophrenia
6 May 2018
A study of the entire population of Sweden has found that people who do artistic subjects at university are more likely to have schizophrenia and depression
NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes
5 May 2018
Under a blanket of fog, NASA’s InSight lander and a pair of cubesats roared into space and set out on a mission to explore deep beneath the surface of Mars
Ketamine ingredient improves severe depression in large trial
5 May 2018
A trial of a nasal spray containing an ingredient of the drug ketamine has had positive but modest results in people with severe depression
