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06/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Soccer players who score using their head are more likely to suffer from cognitive impairments

If you know anyone who plays soccer, tell them to stop using their heads to score a goal or intercept the ball. An American study warns that the impressive-looking practice of “ball heading” makes it more likely for soccer players to suffer cognitive problems, a Science Daily article states. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College […]

05/22/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The perception conundrum: “Gorilla effect” could be blinding us from actually detecting aliens

We might be looking for alien life in the wrong direction. A Spanish study suggests that alien hunters are blinded by the “gorilla effect,” where someone tunnel-visions on something so hard that he fails to notice something strange. Cosmologists focused on the human definition of life while ignoring unorthodox ideas such as aliens made of dark matter or […]

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