Many people feel that listening to music at work improves their mood. Others claim it even makes them more productive. Is there any merit to these impressions? Of course, researchers have weighed in. Listening to music at work can make Read more…
The immune system is the body’s own defence against infection and cancer, but tumours develop ways of stopping the onslaught. The University College London team manipulated the DNA of immune cells to allow them to keep up the fight. Experts Read more…
1. Focus on the solution -not the problem 2. Adapt 5 ways to clearly define the problem 3. Simplify things 4. List out as many solutions as possible 5. Think Laterally 6. Use language that creates possibility
Kelley Harris wishes humans were more like paramecia. Every newborn’s DNA carries more than 60 new mutations, some of which lead to birth defects and disease, including cancers. “If we evolved parameciumlike replication and DNA repair processes, that would never Read more…
Grab your pitchfork, fellow human. We have a new villain to run out of town, and its name is Facebook. It’s selling our data, monitoring our phone calls, and, perhaps worst of all, doesn’t even seem to feel that bad Read more…
Antibiotics can help fragile premature babies survive. But they may have a cost later in life. Should she change the dose of steroids? Administer a diuretic? Remove the feeding tube? Rachel Greenberg makes hundreds of crucial decisions while shuffling through Read more…
A good night’s sleep can improve your mood, help you stay alert and boost your memory. Now data show that getting enough Z’s might also get your cuts to heal more promptly. In fact, sleep was more important than good nutrition Read more…
Dark matter is still the shyest particle in physics. New observations show that dark matter in galaxy cluster Abell 3827 stubbornly ignores all other kinds of matter — including itself, astronomers reported April 6 at the European Week of Astronomy Read more…
Life can be challenging for teens. They must juggle schoolwork, family life and friends. Feelings of sadness, frustration and irritability are common. But for some teens, those emotions take a more extreme turn. Their negative feelings don’t come and go, Read more…
In the mid-19th century, researchers claimed they could tell the sex of an individual just by looking at their disembodied brain. But a new study finds that human brains do not fit neatly into “male” and “female” categories. Indeed, all Read more…
Human eyes have the potential to regenerate their own lenses after surgery—as long as surgeons leave the right kind of cells in, STAT reports. When operating on cataracts, surgeons simply replace the cloudy lens with an artificial one. But this Read more…
Waking up after a short night of sleep is an awful feeling. Not only is getting out of bed tantamount to walking over a bed of hot coals, but also how are you expected to make it through the day Read more…
(This article was featured in Futurism by Victor Tangermann – February 2018 @futurism – Reproduced in March 2018) Myths and Misconceptions For some consumers, the mere act of shopping at the supermarket can be full of overwhelming decisions. After extended Read more…
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the internet was abuzz with discussion when reports surfaced that Floyd Mayweather wore a hijab to a Donald Trump rally, daring people to fight him. The concocted story started on a sports comedy website, Read more…
Surely this is going to be the most thoughtful photo you’ll ever see. A boy sleeping among his parents’ graves in #Syria !!! And you think you have problems ???? Don’t care who’s right or wrong.. This needs to stop!!
No one knows more about the world of tomorrow than Michio Kaku. Equal parts theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science communicator, Kaku studies cutting-edge science and technology in order to understand the future. A graduate of Harvard University and Berkeley, Read more…
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- Museum realizes collection's rare elephant bird egg is real April 25, 2018Museum realizes collection's rare elephant bird egg is real Phys.OrgMuseum Makes a Rare Discovery- Extinct Elephant Bird Egg Is Real TechnoStallsEgg of extinct elephant bird was mislabeled as fake for decades, museum realizes Fox NewsBuffalo Museum of Science discovers a gem in the attic Buffalo Business FirstFull coverage
- European satellite reveals motions of more than 1 billion stars and shape of the Milky Way April 25, 2018European satellite reveals motions of more than 1 billion stars and shape of the Milky Way Science MagazineThe European Space Agency Is Publishing The Largest 3D Map Ever Of The Milky Way Galaxy The InquisitrThe European Space Agency releases the largest and most precise 3D map of our Milky Way The TeCakeFull coverage
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- Altman, Jones inducted into US Astronaut Hall of Fame April 25, 2018Altman, Jones inducted into US Astronaut Hall of Fame SpaceFlight InsiderEd Klein worked 37 years with NASA flights Van Buren Press Argus-CourierFull coverage
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- China's Chang'e-4 relay satellite named "Queqiao" April 25, 2018China's Chang'e-4 relay satellite named "Queqiao" Space DailyNASA to make orbiting lunar base decision in early 2019 Orlando SentinelMan on the moon may soon be Chinese Inquirer.netFull coverage