• The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows

  Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even if it’s off.

  McCombs Assistant Professor Adrian Ward and co-authors conducted experiments with nearly 800 smartphone users in an attempt to measure, for the first time, how well people can complete tasks when they have their smartphones nearby even when they’re not using them.

• African farmers’ kids conquer the marshmallow test

  Children of Nso farmers in Cameroon know how to master the marshmallow test, which has tempted away the self-control of Western kids for decades.

  In a direct comparison on this delayed gratification task, Cameroonian youngsters leave middle-class German children in the dust when challenged to resist a reachable treat while waiting for another goodie, a new study finds.

• Power really does corrupt the mind: The brain activity of CEOs changes as they climb the career ladder and causes them to lose the ability to empathise

  The saying goes that ‘power corrupts’, and a new study suggests there may be some truth behind this – especially when it comes to brain function.

  Researchers have found that CEOs and other leaders may suffer damage to their brain as a result of their rise to power.

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There is fierce disagreement amongst mainstream scientists – a disagreement that also divides alternative researchers – around what happened to the Earth, and to humanity, in the closing millennia of the last Ice Age between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. Marked by intense cold, global floods and extinctions of animal […]

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