Have you tried yawning next to your dog? Have you noticed your little pal yawning after you did? Yes, yawning is a contagious behavior but not all species in the animal kingdom gets affected with it. However, dogs are an exception, just like the gelada baboons, stump-tail macaques, and chimpanzees that also yawn. In fact, [...]
Many basketball fans believe in a ‘hot hand’, where a player has a really great game, and they are likely to make every shot they try for. Researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem decided to investigate this ‘hot hand’ idea. In basketball, you get more points if you shoot for the hoop from far [...]
A report released by the US National Academies shows that scientist ability to observe the climate changes, natural hazards, and the general earth surface has tremendously reduced. The national research council has attributed this to slow replacement process of aging satellites that their functionality is wanting. This is awake up call that if not checked [...]
There has been a constant rise in the number of technologies trying to determine the precise order of nucleotide bases that make the DNA. One of these inventions is the nanopore sequencing method. This new invention has taken a center stage in the research world for solving one of the greatest science puzzles of biology. [...]
One of the commonly used isoflurane anesthesia has been found to make bees have jet lag during the day. Guy Warman, a chronobiologist at the university of Auckland New Zealand reported that isoflurane anesthesia plays a role in the body rhythms as part of the biological clocks. This concept can be demonstrated by doing experiments [...]
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Comments OffLearning how to identify, spell and write words is a common reserve for humans who relay on books. However, baboons have proved themselves capable of not only distinguishing between words and non-words, but also identifying similar words.According to Jonathan Grainger who works as a psychologist at the University of Aix-Marseille,the ability of baboons to identify [...]
At 55 million years to the present, the world suddenly turned warm by a blazing 5 degrees centigrade. This caused oceans to become acidic and the extinction of life was almost evident. This problem was called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This was the time that nature changed and it happened to be a fore [...]
Posted in History, Science Tags: Ancient, carbon-laden permafrost, global warming, magnitude Comments OffPluto’s relegation to dwarf planet category led Mars on assuming the role of the smallest globe in the solar system. However, recent studies concerning the composition of the planet could bring Mars the impressive title of „Iron Planet”. The cooperation between scientists on the Messenger mission orbiting Mercury and the terrestrial-based ones led to discovering [...]
In some of the darker places that exist on the Internet, extremists from all over the world have been planning and discussing terrorist acts. New tools that use crawling techniques, human expertise and sophisticated algorithms are making it possible for experts to gain access to these areas of the web in an effort to predict [...]
Unabated increase in energy consumption with major reliance on burning fossil fuels is nothing but a ticking time bomb with imminent disasters of climate change, increase in oceanic levels and polluted atmosphere beyond safety levels. Efforts to develop new renewable energy sources like solar cells and wind power have helped a little but can not [...]
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