The Science Behind Happy Relationships
Source: Time By SARAH TRELEAVEN June 26, 2018 When it comes to relationships, most of us are winging it. We’re exhilarated by the early stages of love, but as we move onto the […]
Why You Should Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons, According to Science
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME With 88 keys and hundreds of internal strings, a standard piano produces a slew of unique sounds and tones. And mastering that complex system doesn’t only […]
Here’s Why You Get Hangry, According to Science
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN There’s a difference between being hungry—a feeling we all get between meals—and being “hangry“. If you get hangry, you probably already know it: your hunger […]
What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t)
Source: The New York Times By Stephen T. Asma Mr. Asma is a professor of philosophy. It’s a tough time to defend religion. Respect for it has diminished in almost every corner of modern life — not just among atheists and intellectuals, but among the wider public, too. And the next generation […]
What Politics and Religion Could Learn From Science
Source: Slate Returning to a science conference after a few years of covering politics was jarring and instructive. By William Saletan Over my years as a journalist, I’ve written […]
A scientist just turned 104. His birthday wish is to die.
Source: MSN News ByLindsey Bever © Provided by WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington PostChampagne bubbles danced in fancy glasses and birthday candles burned atop a cheesecake marking 104 years of a […]
Stephen Hawking predicted ‘the end of the universe’ two weeks before his death
Source: MSN News BY Clark Mindock A theory explaining how we might detect parallel universes and a prediction for the end of the world was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, […]
I first met Stephen Hawking when we were students. His parties were legendary and he always insisted he wasn’t another Einstein
A Marilyn Monroe lookalike cut a huge birthday cake; a troupe of can-can dancers performed; there was music and singing. When the week’s events were all over, he celebrated with […]
Book: Light from the East: how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the Western world
cosmosmagazine.com: NON FICTION Light from the East: How the science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western world, by John Freely I.B. Taurus (2015) In their frustration and disgust at the barbarity of the modern day Islamic extremists, many commentators in the West, groping for a context in which to […]
He Became A Celebrity For Putting Science Before God. Now Lawrence Krauss Faces Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct.
Source: BuzzFeed News By Peter Aldhous (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Azeen Ghorayshi (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Virginia Hughes(BuzzFeed News Science Editor) When Melody Hensley first met Lawrence Krauss, she was a 29-year-old makeup artist at a department store, […]
Here’s how Kentucky’s Creation Museum chief got a new invite to off-limits campus
Source: LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER BY MIKE STUNSON Updated February 15, 2018 05:15 PM After he was uninvited to speak at an Oklahoma university when LGBT supporters objected, the president and founder of […]
The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy
Source: Ted Talks Amar Inamdar at TEDGlobal 2017 There’s an energy revolution happening in villages and towns across Africa — off-grid solar energy is becoming a viable alternative to traditional […]
The deferred promise of Islamic-world science
Guardian: Last week, almost 3,000 scientists and policymakers from 120 countries gathered on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan for the 2017 World Science Forum. It was a landmark moment for Jordanian science, and a tribute to the vision of Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of Jordan’s Royal Scientific […]
A Call for Global Free Trade in Science
Source: Resnick Institute Viewpoint By Jonas C. Peters Director, Resnick Sustainability Institute Science is a global market, one where free trade in the form of hypotheses, results, conclusions, and their […]
Waymo is first to put fully self-driving cars on US roads without a safety driver
Source: The Verge By Andrew J. Hawkins, @andyjayhawk Nov 7, 2017, 11:00am EST Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reached an important milestone recently: since mid-October, […]
Why So Many People Believe Conspiracy Theories
Source: Time BY Jeffrey Kluger Oct 15, 2017 William of Occam would have hated conspiracy theories. A 14th-century philosopher and Franciscan friar, William is celebrated for developing the “law of […]
17-year-old Pakistani student’s physics paper surprises older scientist
By News Desk Published: October 5, 2017 PHOTO: FACEBOOK A Pakistani high school students’ physics paper has managed to stun an older scientist at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament. When certain kinds of electrically charged particles travel between a pointy electrode and a flat one, but bump into a puddle […]
Opinion: Science under duress in Turkey
By Simon Jäggi This content was published on September 29, 2017 A Swiss-based researcher is one of several from all over Europe who are concerned about the unpredictable future of research freedom in Turkey. (Keystone) The tense situation in Turkey is making it increasingly difficult to conduct research there. Foreign scientists working in […]
Science News and Information Today
Source: Pew Research Center A majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science BY CARY FUNK, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED AND AMY MITCHELL […]
There is a ‘limit’ to human lifespan despite medical advances, scientists claim
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP THE HAGUE Old couple from Turkey’s Black Sea region smile lovingly at each other. (FILE Photo) Dutch researchers claimed Thursday to have discovered the maximum age “ceiling” for human lifespan, despite growing life expectancy because of better nutrition, living conditions and medical care. Mining data […]