After a breakup, you might think you’re doing just fine until you pass that street corner, bump into a mutual friend, or hear a particular love song on the radio. As much as you want to stop thinking about this person, everything is a reminder of the relationship. Besides erasing entire chunks of your memory, … Read more
An international collaboration between musicians and bird song scientists found that in the surveyed songs of the Australian pied butcher, the order of song elements is strongly related to rhythmic timing. In a study published today on Australian spotted butcher birds in Royal Society Open Science, the researchers found that the order of their song … Read more
Pacific island nations suffered severe depopulation from introduced diseases as a result of contact with European ships, new research from the Australian National University (ANU) shows. The study, published in Journal of Archaeological Scienceshows that the population decline is much greater than previously thought. According to the study, the main island of Tonga experienced a … Read more
So you want to get better at climbing? Whether you are a new convert or a seasoned veteran, welcome to the club. Climbing, always a marginal sport compared to, say, running, cycling or swimming, has historically lacked scientific support for even the most basic training protocols. Dashboard routines? Endurance tours? These exercises make intuitive sense, … Read more
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Sue, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, was no doubt a fearsome beast when the predator roamed what is now South Dakota some 67 million years ago in the twilight of the era of the dinosaurs. But even this huge dinosaur, whose fossils are on display at the … Read more
Based on an analysis of just under half a million records at UK Biobank, people who drink two to three cups of coffee every day tend to live longer and have less cardiovascular disease than those who abstain from the drink. While the study doesn’t claim that drinking more coffee adds years to your life, … Read more
The atoms are polarized by the beam of light and begin to attract each other. Credit: Harald Rich / TU Wien Atoms can be made to attract each other using light. Theoretically, this effect has been predicted for a very long time. However, the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the Vienna … Read more
There is a story about Napoleon that I found to be a vivid example of our modern thinking about God. According to the story, he asked a famous physicist to create a model of the universe. When this physicist created it, Napoleon was impressed but also confused. He asked why God was nowhere to be … Read more
Off Broadway News Science comedy Strings Attached Ends Off-Broadway Run Oct. 1 Carole Buggé’s show at Theater Row follows three scientists who are visited by Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Max Planck. Robin Parrish, Brian Richardson and Paul Schoeffler Strings Attached John Quilty The limited edition of the new play by Carol Buge Strings Attached … Read more
Fake it ’til you make is true for kids, too, it turns out: Young girls who embrace the role of a successful female scientist, like Marie Curie, persist longer in a challenging science game. A new study published September 28 in the journal Psychological sciencesuggests that scientific role-playing can help close the gender gap in … Read more
