The connection between brain structure and ideology: MRI scans of 975 Dutch individuals aged 19 to 26 found conservative people's amygdalas are slightly larger (by the size of one sesame seed out of 157)…

Without immediate action, humanity will potentially face further escalation in resistance in fungal disease

The way you smile on LinkedIn, a dating platform, or in your passport photo reveals more about your personality than you might think: research shows that we can accurately estimate key character traits of others based on how someone smiles in their photograph

Climate change engagement of scientists | Large-scale survey of scientists worldwide (University of Amsterdam)

Watching others’ biased behaviour unconsciously creates prejudice: New research shows for the first time that observational learning is an important mechanism of prejudice formation

Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer

A new study demonstrates unequivocally that the greater the insecurity and anxiety of a situation, the more likely people are to become overly optimistic -- even to the point where it can prevent us from taking essential action.

Newborn babies can perceive the beat in music but not simply due to the statistical learning ability of newborns, instead that beat perception is actually a separate cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth

Learn PostScript by Doing (2005) [pdf]

Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?

The houting, a fish species that lived in North Sea estuaries and is officially extinct, turns out to be alive and well

Figuring out a lie. Forget body language, just listen to how detailed it is

Researchers developed a new approach to lie detection: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is

Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever.

Scientists carry greater credibility than spiritual gurus

Haskell Programming With Tests, and Some Alloy

From Attention in Transformers to Dynamic Routing in Capsule Nets

Delay line stores

New research reveals that parents who are able to manage the physical and emotional states of their baby, during the first year of life, contribute greatly to the development of infants’ emotion regulation capacity.

Emacs for the HP49G

Children develop higher self-esteem when their parents treat them warmly

Converting waste toilet paper into electricity - Chemists propose a two-step process

When Tech. Became Language: Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Programming

Amazon River no younger than 9 million years, new study shows. The new data contradict younger estimates (c

No trace of dark matter in gamma-ray background

New theory of gravity might explain dark matter

Rust for functional programmers

Categories from scratch