Tag: Science
Last week, Pope Francis shocked the world when he said that the theories of evolution and the Big Bang don’t contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church and that God doesn’t use a “magic wand.” But was his statement really that profound? According to a newly published paper, the Earth’s oceans are a lot older […]
Cool-ass researchers in London did a study involving magic mushrooms and the brain with the hope of better understanding why psychedelic drugs are so awesome (and potentially be used to treat depression), reports Wired. What they found is that when a person takes shrooms, the brain becomes “hyper connected” and fosters communication between “regions that […]
If the idea of parallel universes blow your mind, then you might want to sit down while you read about this new mind-bending scientific theory: Scientists are proposing that not only are parallel universes real, but they are constantly interacting with each other. The “Many-Interacting Worlds” theory, by Griffith University scientists Howard Wiseman and Dr […]
A remarkable discovery by some of the top scientists in the world has revealed that comets are basically God’s farts. Or at least, that’s what they smell like. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Probe is tasked with doing the space-sniffing. After coming up on the rear of the comet known as 67P, Rosetta reported that […]
Scientists searching for the cause of death for an ancient woman found in the Altai Mountains in 1993 believe she may have been self-medicating with pot. The mummified remains of the woman, who is believed to have lived in the 5th Century BC, revealed well-preserved tattoos. The exact circumstances surrounding her death have remained shrouded […]
A study of Central Park’s soil has found 167,000 different microbial life forms. Such a wide variety of distinct soil communities is usually found among many, different geographical areas around the world, but they’re all here, in a 843-acre park. Central Park soils harbored nearly as many distinct soil microbial phylotypes and types of soil communities as we found in […]
With a crazy lunar eclipse and a blood moon scheduled to hit tomorrow morning at dawn, New York City is one of the worst places to be. If your view isn’t obscured by the towering skyscrapers or the bright lights, the clouds and rain should make it pretty difficult to see. Tomorrow’s eclipse is called “impossible” because you […]
The NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases) has shared these microscopic images of Ebola on the organization’s Flickr account. The scanning electron micrographs include an image of the virus budding from the surface of a Vero cell of an African green monkey’s kidney epithelial cell line. The institute is working on developing Ebola vaccines, including one that will prevent the transmission of the […]
Scientists are getting closer to nailing down which portion of the brain makes people with mood disorders more sensitive to negative life events. The breakthrough comes after experiments at UC San Diego which demonstrate new links between certain neurotransmitters and emotions like disappointment. In studies on rodents, scientists discovered that neurons above the thalamus were producing “both a common […]
The Martian rover Curiosity, which NASA landed on the Red Plant in 2012, has reached a milestone in its scientific journey. After traversing a variety of terrains on the planet’s surface, including one that proved to be an ancient lake bed that could have once contained life, Curiosity is preparing to climb Mars’ Mount Sharp, […]
