With climate change comes intense temperatures, and scientists simply recorded a brand new low. This is the coldest temperature ever recorded in the World. Almost 15 degrees colder than the prior record-breaking coldest temperature, that has been -128 degrees in 1983 near the South Pole, the temperatures in Antarctica fell to -144 degrees Fahrenheit. (-98 … Read more
How these otherworldly sounds may help you hear your way to a happier, healthier you. For as long as she can recall, Jessica Trimberger has lived with anxiety. “I find it difficult to be motivated and am generally jittery,” she says. Trimberger, who owns a company which makes small-batch beauty products, also has trigeminal neuralgia … Read more
New Caledonian crows use mental pictures to spin twigs into hooks and make other tools, according to a provocative study that indicates the notoriously smart birds pass successful designs to future generations, a hallmark of civilization. “Put simply, crows can reverse engineer tool layouts using just a mental image of the tool.” The effort was … Read more
In Easter Island Archaeologists work hard to understand what is actually happening there. Let us begin from the beginning, we were so surprised to find this. Moai Perhaps you have heard of Easter Island and its own peculiar statues? The giant stone figures could be seen all around the island. They’re called the Moai, which … Read more
Two-thirds of the planet is water, but just a portion of it serves any real purpose for life on Earth. Already, one in nine individuals lack access to clean water and the World Health Organization expects half of the planet’s population to live in water-stressed environments by 2025. Desalination–the elimination of salts and other minerals … Read more
We still don’t know what an emotion is Pixar’s Inside Out is a charming, creative film — that “provides a good example of many common but incorrect assumptions about emotion.” That’s according to Ralph Adolphs and David Anderson, both professors of neuroscience at Caltech and the authors of The Neuroscience of Emotion(Princeton University Press). Watching the film you’d think, for … Read more
Summary: Researchers say lying in childhood is normal and an important sign that a child’s cognitive skills are developing. Children typically begin lying in the preschool years, between two and four years of age. These intentional attempts at deception may worry parents, who fear their child will become a pint-sized social deviant. But from a developmental perspective, … Read more