Obtaining 2 dimensional time - fact or fiction?

For almost a century, scientists have been trying to figure out what’s good and what’s bad about Einstein’s vision of the universe. Blending the traditional view of physics with the bizarre almost impossible to understand world of quantum physics is no easy task - for anybody. It’s due to our current understanding of these phenomenae […]

Scientists heat matter to hotter than surface of the Sun

Think about the hottest thing that comes to your mind; probably, 90% of people would answer the Sun. But what if you found out that some scientists in Oxfordshire have eated matter to 10 million Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun, marking a major landmark in research, you’d probably change your mind.The break […]

5 things there is no scientific explanation for

Every once in a while, you hear about something that sounds just unexplainable, but turns out to be not that out of the ordinary a few days later. Still, sometimes, the mystery just keeps going and going and there seems to be no scientific explanation for it. Here’s a list of some of the most […]

Science ABC: how rainbows form

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Rainbows are probably the most spectacular manifestations of light; they’ve fascinated people and stimulated the imagination of millions, and continue to do so even ’til this day. There are all sorts of legends that suround them, from the treasure at the end of the rainbow to the house of gods, for which the […]

Pesticides: Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation

 
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In what is a laudable action, Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees. This comes after honeybees have had numerous things to suffer from - from climate change to pesticides and diseases which caused millions or even billions of deaths.
The German Federal Office […]

Phoenix Spacecraft lands on Mars

The ball aproaches the field and… touchdown! NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived the fiery dive into Mars’ atmosphere Sunday to make a three-point landing in the planet’s arctic regions. This is absolutely a fantastic achievement which included an impressive amount of work and so many people that struggled for this common magnificent objective.
“It looks as […]

Cats to prevent allergies and asthma development

A study conducted by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health showed that cat ownership probably has a very good effect on young children of ages up to 5 years. The study was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.Basically, what is […]

Despite efforts, Creationism Creeps into U.S. Classrooms

If we were to state the obvious, there are 2 sides: creationists and evolutionists. Creationists are mostly religious people, and they believe humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity. Of course, evolutionists accept the scientific theory of biological evolution by natural selection or genetic drift. […]

Sleep deprivation makes it hard to make sense of what we see

It’s still unclear how sleep deprivation affects us, as there are still so many things scientists have failed to understand about sleep itself. But now, neuroscientists at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived people who struggle to stay […]

The dawn of the mamimal? MPs back creation of human-animal embryos

 

British scientists have received the green light to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban yesterday. Already a wave of contradictions and the scientific world is divided into two camps.
An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill was rejected in a free […]

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