Life is a real miracle, for us as well as for all other creatures on earth. These amazing images show a whole new world, one you may find it terrifying, fascinating, exciting, or a mix of all three! The photographs were captured using different kinds
Four male undergrad students at North Carolina University have developed a new idea designed to help women at clubs and bars avoid taking an unwanted psychedelic trip into a bad experience: color changing nail-polish. The idea first came to public attention in early June , after Ankesh
Of course, the Scandinavian countries are not perfect: crime and corruption still exist there. But, the question is not if bad things happen, but at what rate. We have to examine successful strategies already in use, and take what we can borrow to apply in our
Titled “H2Pro”, Cynthia Sin Naga Lam’s ingenious invention should create a more than affordable method for millions to gain access to clean water and electricity. Her submission to Google’s Science Fair competition lays out the project, which first originated from her interest in photocatalytic processes
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan decided to look beyond speculation to see how effective different social change movements (to overthrow the government or liberate territory) were between 1900 and 2006. Their study, conducted at Columbia University, revealed that non-violent uprisings involved greater parts of
Ecology, the study of the interactions between various species (and their environment), has seen a lot of changes over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, a lot of the knowledge has failed to trickle down into politics or mainstream society. In many cases, what people believe
Since the 1960s and 1970s, doctors and neurosurgeons have been successfully attaching the heads of dogs and monkeys to different bodies. The earliest Russian experiments using dogs are actually pretty well-known. The problem has not been keeping the head alive, but instead reconnecting the
This text is about the use of solar energy for human needs, and is not just about photovoltaic. And although photovoltaic is not perfect: it is quickly becoming more effective and less costly. Photovoltaic cells are becoming less dependant on rare-earth metals (which were predicted
David Chalmers discusses the meaning of consciousness, remarking that we spent more time trying to decide if something is conscious or what parts of the brain it exists in, than even figuring out what really consciousness on an abtract level. I agree with Chalmer’s
Despite carrying the misnomer “vitamin”, vitamin D is one of the many essential molecules (other than ions and some amino acids) that you have to get through your diet that we collectively call vitamins. Of course, vitamin D can be created by yourown body (and is thus
