NeuroscienceMIT neuroscientist's research suggests how we see is a function of the brain's attempt to manage the world's visual chaosOur eyes are continuously bombarded by visual information – millions of colours, shapes and ever-changing motion – yet seeing never feels like work. Researchers have discovered one reason: our brains perform automatic visual smoothing over time. A study has found that our visual perception of things is influenced by what we saw up to 15 seconds ago. Read More...
Global development This article is more than 10 years oldYemeni child bride, eight, 'dies on wedding night'This article is more than 10 years oldYemen locals claim a girl has died of internal bleeding after marrying a man five times her age, but official denies allegationsAn eight-year-old Yemeni girl has died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child brides. Read More...
Brigitte NielsenInterviewBrigitte Nielsen on giving birth at 54: ‘I was trying until there were no embryos left’Amy NicholsonThe model and actor talks about her films, marriage to Sylvester Stallone, the devastation of failed IVF, and the benefits of being a mother later in life
In a restaurant on the Sunset Strip, a beaming Brigitte Nielsen pulls out her phone to show me a video of a dark-haired baby girl. This is Frida, the child Nielsen and her husband, Mattia Dessi, had last year, after more than a decade of failed in-vitro fertilisation attempts. Read More...