A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up
11 July 2018
Mathematical models of conflict are seductive, but we shouldn’t throw out the lessons of the past, warns David Betz
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My weekend in the desert trying to experience dream telepathy
10 July 2018
When Rowan Hooper went to Arizona to explore the purpose of dreams, he found himself among “experts” in using dreams to talk to dead people and diagnose cancer
Young kids are surprisingly bad at using memory to plan ahead
5 July 2018
We used to think children as young as four could plan for the future. But now it seems kids develop the type of memory needed to do this later than we thought
Prehistoric two-year-old could grip tree branches with her feet
4 July 2018
A young hominin who lived 3.3 million years ago had flexible feet that she could use to climb trees like a chimp, suggesting our ancestors kept this trait for a long time
London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room
26 June 2018
Objective truths about human culture are hard to come by, but this beautiful new gallery asks all the right questions
