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This is a great New Scientist story by Caroline Williams about how our brains create our imaginations.
Also, there's a little box at the bottom about how our imaginations evolved, which I wrote. Teamwork!
And just like that, a new field of study is born.
Researchers have found a way to obtain proteins from preserved soft tissues - beginning with human braaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnsssssssss - which could reveal all sorts of things about our past
Agatha Christie is back from the dead, in AI form, to teach people how to write crime fiction.
It's bad enough being a writer, thinks New Scientist's Feedback writer, without losing out on work to the dead.
Do we get less imaginative as we get older and more hide-bound?
Or does our imagination improve with age, thanks to practice?
Or does something entirely different happen?
A terribly important scientific paper examines the physics of the egg drop challenge, but the rascally Feedback writer at New Scientist is just not taking it seriously.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635441-100-the-egg-drop-experiment-but-make-it-peer-review/
Here's a bizarre twist: toothache may be older than teeth.
That's because teeth seem to have evolved from sensory organs, and only later became co-opted for mechanical functions like biting and chewing.
In 2010, a cave in Siberia revealed a huge surprise: a new population of ancient humans, who were identified solely from their DNA.
There were no skulls, so no faces.
Fifteen years on, we're starting to know who the Denisovans really were.
For the first time we have complete - like, really complete - genomes for chimps, bonobos and other great apes.
How will this change our understanding of human evolution? Potentially, quite a bit.
May's Our Human Story for New Scientist
It's Eurovision on Saturday, but who really needs it when we have Dance your PhD - in which scientists explain their research through the medium of interpretive dance?
New Scientist's Feedback writer donned some ear defenders and watched this year's winning video.
We need a social media site that is designed specifically for children and teenagers.
And we need to do it as a non-profit, because there is no way that any of the big tech companies would ever build the sort of system that is required.
