2020-04-02_Science_Illustrated

Bacteria in the brain have hitherto been linked with fatal diseases. But biologists have now discovered that the microbes exist ...

By Gorm Palmgren The discovery of intestinal bacteria in the brain might mean that bacteria affect the brain directly, instead o ...

F or three decades, biologist Rosalinda Roberts has cut ultra- thin slices from the brains of the recently deceased, studying th ...

lactic-acid bacteria which make up a natural part of the human intestinal flora. The ‘food’ resulted in lower concentrations of ...

bypassing the blood-brain barrier, which normally keeps out bacteria. Theoretically, the bacteria need only pass the intestinal ...

3 NEUROTRANSMITTERS FROM THE BACTERIA TALK TO THE BRAIN Intestinal bacteria influence immune cells close to the intestinal wall ...

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Many spiders weave their webs widely to capture prey. But this Asian crab spider uses its web as camouflage, spinning a disguise ...

Intelligence is volatile. Scientists find it difficult to agree on a concrete definition of this capacity that cannot be measure ...

Thousands of people have had their mental capacities measured, with the results analysed and compared across gender, age, nature ...

F or Scottish schoolchildren aged 10-11 on the 1st of June 1932, it was a special day. Instead of following their usual timetabl ...

quotient is calculated. The scoring system is designed in such a way that a sufficiently large group of test subjects will yield ...

confirmed the same trend, causing him to conclude that “Whether you live to collect your old-age pension depends in part on your ...

highly surprising. Overall, they show that the IQ of the eight-year-olds matches the IQ of the adopted mother to some extent. At ...

the difference between the groups as a whole. But there are other statistical differences between different population groups th ...

intelligence as determined by an underlying g factor. On the other hand, scientists also emphasise that intelli- gence is only o ...

PHOTODOC OCEAN FEAST JELLYFISH ELEVATOR An octopus gets a ride to the surface. In the abyss, there is often not much to eat, so ...

By Morten Kjerside Poulsen & Henrik Vinther Nielsen MANTIS SHRIMP TEARS PREY APART Jagged claws pierce fish. BIG RAY, TINY L ...

Sometimes the best defence is to scare one’s enemies. In order to scare off hungry predators, African pompanos have evolved tent ...

Young fish are particularly vulnerable, so they must resort to radical solutions to avoid ending up as an appetiser. This young ...