Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found compelling evidence that healthy humans are hard-wired to recognize empathetic strangers who can help them in 20 seconds....
Researchers discovered that music with a special balance between a predictable rhythm and a dash of complexity explains why James Brown will get most people up and dancing, while many struggle to tap their feet along with experimental jazz. The researchers from Oxford University and the...
Could there possibly be a natural piezoelectric effect under New York City? Under Manhattan Island is a 542 million-year-old Paleozoic crystalline rock formation. The garnet, silliminate and quartz under New York City are all around a 7 on the Moh’s scale (imagine diamonds are a...
Though astrology hasn't been considered a science for thousands of years, on Thursday, February 4th, 2011, the Bombay High Court in India reaffirmed that it is indeed a "science? when it dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged astrology as a science. The 100-page PIL...
The constellation Ophiuchus (prior Serpentarius) is old news, so old that even the astronomer, astrologer and mathematician Ptolemy (90 AD) knew about it and so did most of the ancient world. Current and past pole stars according to the precession of the equinoxes 2012 Wiki That the earth...
Bernhard Rode 1768-69Wikimedia Commons In a Time.com article, Why the Aflockalypse Is Business As...
FSC cigarettes even more dangerous? After lighting up are you experiencing more headaches, stomach cramps or a coppery taste in your mouth? Does your new FSC (fire-safe cigarette) taste bad, cause dry mouth and are you coughing more? New York State was one of the first states...
Before the 1970s, there were no regulations protecting the environment. It was perfectly legal for a factory to dump toxic waste into streams and spew toxic fumes in the air. In 1962, Rachel Carson, a renowned biologist and nature writer, published "Silent Spring", a work against...
The hypothalamus, an almond-sized structure located deep within the brain, is known to have fundamental roles in growth, development, reproduction, and metabolismAlbert Einstein College of Medicine ...
PlayRice students have created what they call a "virtual fitting room." Their goal is simple and consumer-friendly: to assure online clothing shoppers a perfect fit and a perfect look with every purchaseYouTube Rice University ...
What would happen during a magnetic pole shift?Geir Akselsen: Creative Commons Have magnetic pole...
University of Colorado Denver in a press release on April 22, 2014, reports the results of two studies published in the 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences on the most common type of `friend' to be unfriended on Facebook and how "unfriending" them...
Pleaides NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer It's a month of repeats and corrections (Mercury is retrograde most of...
Watching an emotionally charged film clip caused a disturbance to the normal heartbeatPhoto credit: Nomadic Lass on Flickr (cc) ...
Did you know that the word "masticate" is derived from the Greek word "mastiha?" Mastiha is a miraculous resin that seeps from the mastic tree (Pistachia Lentiscus var. Chia) only on the Greek Island of Chios in the Eastern Aegean Sea. In 1998, Mastiha was distinguished...
These very strange cloud formations suddenly appeared in the sky around 8:30 p.m. when the sun was setting in Union Square Park in NYC today. Moments before their appearance, people were casually sitting on the steps of the park entrance and carrying on as most New...
After studying 30,000-year-old sedimentary DNA from permafrost deposits in the Yukon a Canadian research team from the University of Alberta and McMaster University have found that microbes "have been building their defences to antibiotics since the time of woolly mammoths". Their research findings published on August...
The mechanics of sleep and the process by which we store and retrieve memories has from ancient times been approached through many myths and theories, but it is only recently that hard science is seriously uncovering these mysteries of the mind. A study in Nature Neuroscience,...
Randomness and Free Will Part of the Plan? Many of us assume that...