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Why are dating scams on the rise? Have scientists made a breakthrough in the battle against malaria? And can humans live without a sense of time?

Cave Experiment Explores How Humans Adapt in Extreme Confinement Published April 29th, 2021 - 02:06 GMT Explorer-Researcher (Twitter) Highlights With no way to reference time inside a cave, organising tasks together had been a particular challenge, Clot told AP.  As the world experiences forced isolation due to the pandemic, a cave experiment explores how humans adapt in extreme confinement. Also Read Fifteen French volunteers have spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or any connection to the outside world in an experiment that sought to better understand our perception of time,...

There are two ways to study the brain: in vivo (in a living organism) or in vitro (in the petri dish). But what if there was a third way? Neuroscientist Henry Markram envisions in silico, and that was the root of his Blue Brain Project: a plan to create a full electronic brain. But was Markram an interdisciplinary visionary, an arrogant techno dude bro, or Don Quixote? It's incorrect to describe In Silico as Noah Hutton's documentary follow-up to to his brilliant, incisive techno-satire Lapsis, since he's been working on it for a decade. Filming, he notes in his own commentary, began not l...

These volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or way to tell time Montreal's Marina Lançon was one of 15 people who volunteered to spend 40 days in a French cave without any way to tell the time or communicate with the outside world — all in the name of science.  Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 27, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: April 27 Marina Lançon, pictured in the centre with a blue bandana and gray sweater, emerges from the Lombrives Cave in France with 14 other people after 40 days underground.(Renata Brito/The Associated Press)

What happens if you put 15 people together in a dark cave and take away their ability to track the passage of time? An extraordinary experiment in France has attempted to answer this question, and the results are fascinating.