Science
Watch this cool video to learn 11 mind-boggling facts about Croatian-born Nikola Tesla – a genius inventor who discovered the electric alternating current and much, much more.
Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram may not be great for personal well-being. The first experimental study examining use of multiple platforms shows a causal link between time spent on these social media and increased depression and loneliness.
In broad terms, overpopulation relates to whether our planet is capable of sustaining humans as our numbers increase and resources decrease. Can the Earth Sustain More of Us? The answer, unfortunately, is not a straightforward as one would hope. According to a 2012 report commissioned by the UN, encompassing 65 different estimates, Earth’s human capacity could vary anywhere from 2 billion people to upwards of 1 trillion.
Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are 6 scientific explanations that turned out to be way off track.
You might think that not a lot can happen in 5 seconds. But around the world, in the whole universe, and inside your own body, there are millions of processes taking place in that tiny amount of time. Get ready because some of these facts will take you for a wild ride and make your head spin.
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) in Antarctic detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” Last week, a group of researchers posted a new theory about the rays measured by ANITA. The group, led by Pennsylvania State University physicist Derek Fox, suggests ANITA may have found evidence of a particle that lies completely outside of the Standard Model of physics.
Earlier this year, scientists from New York and Sweden published the results of their sweeping study of 5 million DNA barcodes from about 100,000 different animal species. As reported by phys.org, the results are “sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about how evolution unfolds.” In addition to a shocking absence of genetic diversity, the authors were stunned to conclude that about 9 out of every 10 species on Earth appear to have come into being at about the same time, apparently sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Study co-author David Thaler said of the findings, “This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could.” One unavoidable possibility these results raise is articulated in the phys.org report, which asks, “Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?”
New research sheds light on how people decide whether behavior is good or bad, moral or immoral. The findings could serve as a framework for informing the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies.
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Scientists report that humans might be quick to judge, but we may have also evolved to be quick to forgive. A recent study found that when assessing the moral character of others, people cling to good impressions but readily adjust their opinions about those who have behaved badly, according to new research.
Society has encouraged people to be more physically active, yet we are actually becoming less active. A new study offers a possible explanation: Our brains may be innately attracted to sedentary behavior. Electroencephalograms showed that test subjects had to summon extra brain resources when trying to avoid physical inactivity.
The idea that we live in a holographic universe that uses a form of quantum “computer code” to create the physical reality is not a new idea. In the 1940s, some physicists suggested that we live in a “computer generated” universe.
Want to see Einstein’s most famous theory in every day life? Read this.
Science works best when in harmony with nature. If we put these two together, we can discover great technologies that can only come about when the consciousness of the planet is ready to embrace them.
Neurogenesis is necessary to improve mood, increase memory formation and prevent the decline associated with agingIn this Ted Talk, Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says we can, and offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis to improve mood, increase memory formation and prevent the decline associated with aging as well. as well.
In this fascinating video, Hank Green explores what science can and cannot predict with much accuracy, and how science is moving the art of prediction forward.
