The Conversation

[:eu]Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.[:]

[:eu]Musk originally intended the Hyperloop to cover the 600km route from Los Angeles to San Francisco at an average speed of about 960kph, reducing what’s currently a 12-hour train journey to just 35 minutes. Although funding has since been channelled into a bullet train service for this route, the idea of the hyperloop has attracted…

[:eu]When a virus infects a living cell, it hijacks and reprograms the cell to turn it into a virus-producing factory. Now scientists at the University of California have for the first time discovered just how extensive that reprogramming can be, effectively turning bacterial cells into animal or plant-like cells. This might even be how the…

[:eu]So would it possible in the real world? Let’s not worry about the vast quantities of raw materials required. [:]

[:eu]Plants are often used not just as food and clothing but as part of complex technologies. Here are some more amazing ways we can use vegetation.[:]

[:eu]Sutton Hoo in East Anglia is one of the most important archaeological sites in England. The weapons, clothing and other objects buried in the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries show that trade networks in the 6th and 7th century reached as far away as Europe and Asia. Now new research conducted at the British Museum and University of…

[:eu]The search for mysterious “fast radio bursts” – very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space – is heating up. Nobody knows what causes these powerful bursts, but some have even speculated that the signals could be transmitted by distant alien civilisations. In fact, astronomers are so perplexed by the phenomenon that…

[:en]Recent work reveals that a small number of people may have extraordinary face recognition skills, outperforming typical people on a range of face recognition tasks.[:]

[:es]Thoughts, feeling and expectations can influence pain, and even contribute to how people respond to pain killing drugs. The external social world also impacts on such expectations, and in turn how pain is experienced.[:]