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How Artificial Intelligence May Be Rewiring Our Brains

A recent study suggests that frequent reliance on artificial intelligence tools may be linked to a decline in critical thinking skills.

calendar 6.7.2025
reading-time 6 minutes

The Strange World of Science Deniers

In today’s social media-driven world, conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience advocates find fertile ground to spread misinformation and resurrect long-debunked ideas – ranging from flat Earth beliefs to outdated geocentric models – that science laid to rest centuries ago.

calendar 22.5.2025
reading-time 11 minutes

Pollution Through the Ages: A Millennia-Old History

Pollution may seem like a modern crisis, but ancient civilizations recognized its impacts and sought ways to address it thousands of years ago.

calendar 20.5.2025
reading-time 5 minutes

Ensuring Image Integrity in Scientific Research

Technological developments are helping verify images in scientific articles, promoting transparency and reliability in science.

calendar 17.5.2025
reading-time 7 minutes

Archiving Scientific Knowledge in the Digital Age

Scientific content appears more accessible than ever, but virtual memory is full of gaps, leading to the loss of digital information

calendar 27.8.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Broken Hearts – The Physiology of Heartbreak

The metaphor “heartbreak” has a real physiological basis and emotional stress inflicts pain akin to physical pain

calendar 30.5.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Navigating the Ethics of Social Robots

Social robots can offer positive benefits, but it is crucial to advance legislation that regulates their development

calendar 8.5.2024
reading-time 9 minutes

Can Biofortification Solve World Hunger?

The past, present and future of nutritionally enhanced crop

calendar 2.11.2023
reading-time 5 minutes

Detecting Deception: How Can We Identify Liars?

Do the eyes reveal the truth? It turns out we are not very good at figuring out when we are being lied to.

calendar 29.10.2023
reading-time 9 minutes

When Prehistoric Man Got Stoned – Psychoactive Substances in Prehistory

Research suggests that mind-altering drugs were instrumental in the development of complex human societies

calendar 26.10.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

The Rise And Fall of The Moa

The evolution and extinction of the largest bird that ever existed

calendar 24.8.2023
reading-time 5 minutes

‘Publish or Perish’ – The Quest For Scientific Publishing

A caricature raises an important discussion on the flaws of the method that pushes scientists to publish more and more

calendar 9.7.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

Exploring The Ecology of Medieval Knight Tales

Unearthing lost medieval narratives through ecological models

calendar 15.6.2023
reading-time 5 minutes

On Garlic, Magnets and The Scientific Revolution

For over 1,500 years, scholars believed in a fact that any child could disprove with a simple test.

calendar 12.1.2023
reading-time 8 minutes

Why We Lie: Uncovering the Motivations Behind Deception

People lie from infancy to old age. Why is it that such a common and sometimes beneficial action, considered negative?

calendar 28.12.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

The Astounding Physics of Santa Claus

Distributing gifts to hundreds of millions of children, Santa surely uses an active wormhole

calendar 24.12.2022
reading-time 4 minutes

The Ancient Apocalypse That Never Happened

A new Netflix series supposedly uncovers an advanced Ice Age civilization. What about the facts?

calendar 7.12.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

The Dark Side of Research: Scientific Fraud

Elisabeth Bik, who gave up a research career to fight scientific fraud, tells us about the battle for scientific integrity

calendar 8.9.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

On Pride, Prejudice and Monkeypox

Outbreak of the disease in the western world – the need to provide health information to the public vs. the concern of harmful stigmas

calendar 4.8.2022
reading-time 14 minutes

״But, Everyone Knows It’s True!״ – On Scientific Consensus

A proven scientific theory can become consensus, but consensus could also have negative aspects

calendar 14.7.2022
reading-time 8 minutes

The Book Ahead Of Its Time – Newton’s ‘Principia Mathematica’

The “Principia”, Newton’s groundbreaking book that shaped our understanding of the laws of gravity and physics, overcame many an obstacle on its way to recognition

calendar 14.7.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

The Writer Who Reinvented Science Fiction

Centenary of the birth of Stanislaw Lem, whose unique writing combined science fiction, social criticism, linguistic virtuosity and satire

calendar 30.9.2021
reading-time 13 minutes