Very Interesting – July-August 2019
You feel happier Your brain releases more of the hormones dopamine and oxytocin. These feel-good chemicals give a euphoria simi ...
B ack in about 1999, I watched a programme about women’s body hair. The premise was simple: take four women – two with a typical ...
and so people will put themselves in front of huge potential audiences. They don’t do it to get negative feedback, and so end up ...
An American researcher has embarked on a project to scan the inner structures of every species of fish known to science – all 33 ...
NIFTY MOVER. BONNETHEAD SHARK SPHYRNA TIBURO While chasing prey, bonnethead sharks turn incredibly sharply. Scientists original ...
FANGS A LOT FANGTOOTH ANOPLOGASTER CORNUTA Lurking hundreds of metres beneath the waves, these aggressive predators have the la ...
Scalyhead sculpins live in coastal regions of the western US and British Columbia. Despite being just 10cm long, the males are h ...
PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK In many parts of the world, women are paid less than men. One solution might be total pay transparency. Can ...
T here is a revolution stirring. It’s taking shape in offices, around dinner tables and in newspaper headlines: people are talki ...
A Potential drawbacks Researchers Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Mareike Nossol at the London School of Economics sought to answer thi ...
about it. There were some fears that people had around what may happen once their salary is public for the world to see and know ...
She suggests one benefit of organisations keeping salaries secret is that it helps to manage anxieties that accompany feelings a ...
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People have been tracking larger animals by satellite for a while now, but you have managed to scale the technology down to be s ...
by thousands of animals worldwide thereafter. Towards the end of 2018, the tracker’s receiver was installed on the International ...
TE X T: SIMON CROMPTON Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50. We want to know if current research could help us find a s ...
T here are myriad stories. People who were laughing an hour before they took their own lives. People who were simply ‘not quite ...
feelings of entrapment that seem to be a key driver to suicide as a means of escape. His lab works with suicide survivors in hos ...
can either step off the side of the building, or you can press the elevator button and ride down to the ground floor. Your choic ...
REUTERS ILLUSTRATION: OWEN GENT A background of stressful life events may predispose people to suicidal thoughts. Some other fac ...
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