Science
Need a little meditation motivation? Here are a bunch of proven ways your brain benefits from silence.
A successful human head transplant is just a matter of putting the relevant techniques together to carry it out, says doctor performing procedure.
Joe Kirschvink, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology who is currently testing humans for a magnetic sense, says that “it’s part of our evolutionary history. Magnetoreception may be the primal sense.”
Who is CERN and what is their AWAKE experiment? You should know – and you should SEE THESE PHOTOS.
Nikola Tesla was truly amazing man, with such grand visions. In 1922, Tesla predicted FaceTime, and just a few years later, in an interview with Collier’s Weekly, Tesla predicted the smartphone.
In the study, people using self-talk, for example telling yourself “I can do better next time” — performed better than the control group in every portion of the task.
We spend our formative years in school, developing our rational minds, but our emotions receive no formal attention. High divorce rates, job loss, employment stress, accidents, deaths, personal struggles, changing hormones, financial problems and health issues challenge everyone’s emotional health. Yet, as a society, we stubbornly treat the development of our emotions as a low priority. Since emotions are invisible, they are treated as if they don’t exist. S
The research team from the University of Oregon, United States, are said to have developed a system that can read people’s thoughts via brain scans, and rebuild the faces they were visualizing in their heads.
The Dutch inventor [21-year old Boyan Slat] of a ground-breaking project to remove millions of tonnes of plastics floating in “great garbage patches” in the oceans Wednesday unveiled his first prototype to help clean up the seas.
Asap SCIENCE looks at an interesting topic related to the brain functioning of fish and how well it relates to that of a human. Watch as they compare attention span, forgetfulness and the presence of pain receptors between humans and fish.
The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time. For others, the Hum is loud, relentless and life-altering.
Our facial expressions convey a lot about our emotions, but why? Hank Green explores how our evolution has helped form how we communicate with our faces.
The machine, which is temporarily available for $995, is part of an initiative to help create more sustainable energy as well as provide electricity and gas for cooking in parts of the world where it is spotty or lacking. The machine is also portable, and can be easily packed up and moved, which makes it a fantastic invention for those without a permanent home looking to provide electricity and gas to temporary shelters.
According to new calculations, the odds that we are not the first technological civilization are actually high. Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.
We’ve all learned that DNA is a double helix, but it’s more complex than we may think. What other configurations can DNA have? In this video, DNews discusses some exciting new findings.
