If you’re looking to haggle, steer clear of big, beefy salesmen. The same hormone responsible for their brawn may also reduce their generosity, new research suggests.
“Our broad conclusion is that testosterone causes men essentially to be stingy,” says Karen Redwine, a neuro-economist at Whittier College in California, who presented the work at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.
EACH summer, a team from the University of Oslo in Norway go hunting for monsters on the island of Spitsbergen. They carry guns in case they get menaced by the world’s largest living land carnivore, the polar bear. But it is not bears they are after. They are searching for much bigger quarry, the most formidable predators that ever lived.
A spacecraft named LCROSS, speeding toward the moon at 5,600 miles an hour, fired a two-ton empty rocket casing precisely into the heart of a dark lunar crater early Friday and sent thousands of tons of moon rocks, sand and dust high into the sunlit sky in a quest for water near the moon’s South Pole.
For me, Tim Burton has always been more of a visual stylist than a master storyteller. His films always have a great look and feel to them, but some clearly work better than others—Charlie & The Chocolate Factory vs. Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas vs. Planet Of The Apes. View full article »
This Cave Has Been Sealed for Over 5 Million Years—And It’s Crawling with ‘Aliens,’ Scientists Say
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Its unique environment hints at the possible nature of extraterrestrial life.
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Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?
Interstellar object spotted shedding metals in way that defies science
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Scientists have been left puzzled after spotting that the mysterious interstellar object in our Solar System is 'bleeding' metals in a way that has never been observed before.