tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40095211887040194482026-02-15T10:03:07.951+02:00Science RIOT"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger740125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-3975542407598814562023-02-19T20:04:00.003+02:002023-02-19T20:04:44.277+02:00Multiverse, is there a bigger structure?The universe is a vast and mysterious place, filled with galaxies, stars, planets, and other celestial objects that are still being discovered and studied by scientists today. One of the most fascinating and mind-bending ideas in modern physics is the possibility that our universe is just a tiny part of a much larger structure, sometimes called the multiverse.The multiverse theory proposes that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-57666482664406957802023-02-19T19:54:00.002+02:002023-02-19T19:54:53.038+02:00People Pleasing Syndrome: The Danger to MarriagesPeople pleasing syndrome is a common trait that can affect many individuals. It refers to the tendency to prioritize the needs and desires of others over one's own needs and desires, often to the point of neglecting or sacrificing one's own well-being. While people pleasing can be seen as a positive attribute, it can also lead to negative consequences, especially in marriages. If a person with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-91206333835153273912023-02-13T23:27:00.002+02:002023-02-13T23:27:27.018+02:00Theory of EverythingThe Theory of Everything (ToE) is a hypothetical concept that aims to describe the underlying principles and forces that govern the universe. It's a grand idea that has captivated scientists, philosophers, and the general public for centuries. ToE is a unifying framework that seeks to explain the behavior of all physical phenomena, from the smallest subatomic particles to the largest structures Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-49368631413702622642023-02-13T22:19:00.002+02:002023-02-13T22:19:19.650+02:00Perception of Reality: Separating Fact from FictionThe question of what is real and what we see has been a topic of discussion for centuries. Many philosophical and scientific arguments have been made about the nature of reality and our perception of it. In this blog post, we will explore the scientific facts about perception and reality to shed light on this complex subject.Our Perception is Limited by Our SensesIt's a well-known fact that our Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-75965478885719640882023-02-10T01:50:00.001+02:002023-02-10T01:50:14.920+02:00The Matrix: A Concept ExploredThe Matrix is a science fiction concept that raises thought-provoking questions about reality and our place in the world. In the 1999 film "The Matrix," the central premise is that humanity is trapped in a simulated reality created by sentient machines, and that the "real world" is a desolate wasteland.The idea of living in a simulated reality has been explored in various forms of media and has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-34233380859579835612023-02-10T01:29:00.004+02:002023-02-10T01:29:42.360+02:00AI: Making Our Lives Easier and BetterArtificial Intelligence, or AI, is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to revolutionize our lives in many ways. But what exactly is AI and how will it benefit us?At its simplest, AI refers to technology that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing images and patterns, and making decisions. This is achieved through Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-61586013660461189572023-02-10T01:13:00.006+02:002023-02-13T22:41:32.948+02:00Science: The Key to Improving Our Lives. Our blog is back to life!Science has been a driving force behind many of the advancements in our modern world, shaping the way we live, work, and interact with each other. From medicine and technology to energy and transportation, science has played a vital role in improving our quality of life and making the world a better place.For example, advances in medical science have allowed us to cure diseases and extend our Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-79169726490252774642017-05-17T07:00:00.000+03:002017-05-17T07:00:11.558+03:00Human biocomputers, matrix, the Universe and Cosmotheories
This Video is an interview with dr. Manos Danezis, Professor of astrophysics in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It is in Greek Language, and someone should translate this video, so the whole world could hear his sayings.
https://youtu.be/yzvFTPM21bs
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-3082181892724912252017-05-17T01:30:00.000+03:002017-05-17T01:30:01.318+03:00Unlocking the Brain’s Deepest Secrets
In neuroscience, neurons get all the glory. Or rather, they used to. Researchers are beginning to discover the importance of something outside the neurons—a structure called the perineuronal net. This net might reveal how memories are stored and how various diseases ravage the brain.
The realization of important roles for structures outside neurons serves as a reminder that the brain is a lot Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-81816793106783086482017-05-16T23:30:00.000+03:002017-05-16T23:30:08.359+03:00Cosmology and Culture
Joel R. Primack
Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz There is no way to describe scientifically the origin of the universe without treading upon territory held for millennia to be sacred. Beliefs about the origin of the universe are at the root of our consciousness as human beings. This is a place where science, willingly or unwillingly, encounters concerns traditionally Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-27467571102585805572017-05-16T18:30:00.000+03:002017-05-16T18:30:19.890+03:00Predicting the Next 100 Years - Physics of the Future
by Michio Kaku over a year ago
When I was a child, two experiences helped to shape the person I am today and spawned two passions that have helped to define my entire life.
First, when I was eight years old, I remember all the teachers buzzing with the latest news that a great scientist had just died. That night, the newspapers printed a picture of his office, with an unfinished manuscript on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-86523160387462536092017-05-16T00:56:00.000+03:002017-05-16T00:56:43.427+03:00How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein had only just published his revolutionary new theory of gravity, atomic nuclei were entirely mysterious, and quantum “theory” was a tissue of guesswork. Superconductivity, the nature of the chemical bond, and the energy source of stars were riddles that baffled physics.
And then there were the unknown unknowns: Big Bang cosmology, black holes, quarks, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-4109705548865316102016-04-21T01:19:00.000+03:002016-04-21T01:23:56.109+03:00Insects can teach us about the origins of consciousness
Are insects merely tiny robots? Or, in the phrase popularised by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, is there something it is like to be a bee?Until recently, most scientists and philosophers would have laughed at the question. But now, research is challenging that dismissive attitude towards invertebrate consciousness.It is worth clarifying what we mean when we talk about insect consciousness, since Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-78731071452121343382015-09-17T16:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T16:30:02.262+03:00Superadvanced alien civilizations probably don’t live in our cosmic neighborhood
If there are superadvanced civilizations out there in the nearby universe, they’re hiding themselves pretty well. So concludes an astronomer in the Netherlands who looked at a sample of galaxies that shine unusually brightly at midinfrared wavelengths—a sign that they may harbor a so-called Kardashev type III civilization, one that has the technology to harvest energy from stars across an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-63102546221782980702015-09-17T13:00:00.000+03:002015-09-17T13:00:08.505+03:00This new technology converts sea water into drinking water in minutes
Purifying dirty water is a notoriously difficult and expensive process - even in California, financial pressures affect what can be done to tackle the severe drought in the area. Those in developing nations have far less money to play around with, which is why a newly invented and ultra-cheap water cleaning process is looking so promising.
Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-14197338822991431762015-09-17T11:00:00.000+03:002015-09-17T11:00:10.994+03:00Half of all marine life lost in 40 years: WWF report
The populations of some marine species have declined by 49 per cent in just four decades, according to one of the most extensive surveys of sealife ever compiled.The Living Blue Planet Report, just released by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, documents the extraordinary losses, which occurred from 1970 to 2012. Alarmingly, some fish species wereUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-20687465772550999362015-09-17T08:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T08:30:02.433+03:00WOW!! A vast global ocean lies under the surface of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus
A huge global ocean is hidden underneath the surface of Saturn’s sixth largest moon, Enceladus, according to new research just announced by NASA.
NASA scientists made the discovery after noticing that the magnitude of Enceladus’s slight wobble as it orbits Saturn is too great to be accounted for if the moon’s outer ice shell were solidly connected to its rocky inner core, as was previously Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-32135434257065797252015-09-17T06:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T06:30:00.506+03:00Researchers explain human decision-making with physics theory
The next time someone accuses you of making an irrational decision, just explain that you're obeying the laws of quantum physics.
A new trend taking shape in psychological science not only uses quantum physics to explain humans' (sometimes) paradoxical thinking, but may also help researchers resolve certain contradictions among the results of previous psychological studiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-80557406010243087382015-09-17T04:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T04:30:00.707+03:00No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
(Phys.org) —The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-312174414069404582015-09-17T03:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T03:30:00.910+03:00Why you should start work at 10am
We shouldn’t make everyone come in at 9am just because it suits the boss’s sleeping patterns. It’s time to stagger starting times and let 30-somethings come in later, says one leading sleep scientistLots of us know we are sleep-deprived, but imagine if we could fix it with a fairly simple solution: getting up later. In a speech this week at the British science festival, Dr Paul Kelley, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-50255612675112940012015-09-17T02:30:00.000+03:002015-09-17T02:30:00.069+03:00Raising Children Without Religion May Be A Better Alternative, Suggests New Research
Gone are the days of the unyielding God-fearing mother as the archetype of good parenting, suggests a recent article from the Los Angeles Times. According to multiple reports, research has shown that a secular upbringing may be healthier for children. According to a 2010 Duke University study, kids raised this way display less susceptibility to racism and peer pressure, and are “less vengeful,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-618770165302648962015-09-17T01:25:00.001+03:002015-09-17T01:25:09.264+03:00Global Marine Populations Have Halved Since 1970
The oceans are in a dire state. A new report released today by the WWF and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has concluded that many marine species, including those critical to human food security, are in “potentially catastrophic decline” unless dramatic action is taken to stop overfishing and other major threats. “In the space of a single generation, human activity has severely Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-82604432821825243882015-09-16T09:00:00.000+03:002015-09-16T09:00:05.415+03:00The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head
Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.
On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-66551193340521283562015-09-16T08:00:00.000+03:002015-09-16T08:00:01.803+03:00Raising pay can reduce smoking rates
In addition to restricting when and where tobacco is used at work, UC Davis Health System research shows that employers can do something else to reduce smoking: raise wages.Published in the August issue of the Annals of Epidemiology, the study found that a 10 percent increase in wages leads to about a 5 percent drop in smoking rates among workers who are male or who have high school educationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009521188704019448.post-90927172564918264802015-09-16T07:00:00.000+03:002015-09-16T07:00:02.843+03:00Quantum spookiness has been confirmed by first loophole-free experiment
It's official: reality is freaking weird.Physicists have confirmed that distant particles really can influence each other and act in strange ways that can't be explained by common sense or, for the most part, the laws of physics.This bizarre behaviour is what's known as quantum 'spookiness', and despite plenty of experiments showing that it exists, this is the first time it's been demonstratedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0