Happy holidays! As we do at the end of each year, The Review asked a dozen of our contributors to recommend scholarly books that thrilled, surprised, challenged, and delighted them. This year the ...
We all like to think of ourselves as quick-witted, but a new study from Caltech calculates that our brains process information at the extremely slow speed of around 10 bits per second. This leisurely ...
Two hundred and fifty barbel fish were released into the River Severn near Callow End as anglers and Environment Agency officials worked together, using buckets to transfer the fish to the water.