The past of our ancestors lives on through us: Groundbreaking research illustrates how parental experience is not only epigenetically imprinted onto offspring, but onto an unprecedented number of future generations. Rather than occurring over the elo
All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no
Humans use recursion in language when we embed one clause within another to form a complex sentence, writes Scientific American's Diana Kwon. For example, if a human says, "The ball the bat hit flew," they've nested the clause "the bat hit
But, as David Foster Wallace (sorry) wrote in Infinite Jest (sorry again), "certain persons simply will not like you not matter what you do," and no matter how likable you think you are, you're not going to win over every person you meet. "Re
We've already hit peak child - there will never again be more children alive than there are today, with fertility rates plummeting across the globe.
We're getting older and older, which means there are fewer people able to work to supp
Nuclear reactors are big, expensive, and take a long time to build, but what if we could make them smaller, portable, cheaper, and safer. Small modular reactors are getting a lot of interest with the first versions coming online in China and new loca
Thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear energy system (TMSR) is a type of fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses thorium as fuel. It is 100 times safer than uranium and has the potential to provide human energy needs for 20,000 years. TMSR is
Despite its fearsome reputation, the mathematics of quantum theory is actually rather straightforward. Once you get used to the ins and outs, it's simpler to solve a wide variety of problems in quantum mechanics than it is in, say, general relativi
While there are many things I learned from Dr. Huggins, and there were many areas I then ended up exploring because of what he taught me, the single most important thing I learned from him was the incredible ability of vitamin C to improve or heal so
For the last couple of decades one of the more effective clinical treatments for this type of breast cancer has been a monoclonal antibody therapy designed to block the activity of HER2 on tumor cells. However, researchers have long been working on
Truth be told, beneath even the appearance of our solid physio-chemical form, are waves of energy, patterns of vibration (not unlike sound), condensed forms of light, vast voids of inter-atomic space, and subtending that reality from 'below,' an
Unitarity, as the principle is called, says that something always happens. When particles interact, the probability of all possible outcomes must sum to 100%. Unitarity severely limits how atoms and subatomic particles might evolve from moment to mom
They work for ReefWatch Marine Conservation, an organization that has developed nine artificial reefs near the archipelago's natural coral formations. ReefWatch's reefs are literally supercharged. Bobbing on the water's surface, a buoy with a s
Astronomers encounter a lot of intriguing celestial bodies while studying space: a nebula that looks like a tarantula, massive black holes, ice volcanoes and a moon that sounds like dial-up internet, to name a few.
Now, they've found a unique ex
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most powerful class of explosions. And compared to all others previously detected, this one is thought to be brighter by a factor of ten, as Jillian Rastinejad, an astronomer at Northwestern University whose te
A company has shrunk the wind turbine from being as tall as the Statue of Liberty to a 10-foot bladeless box that provides more power than 15 solar panels.
In the past couple of years cold fusion has received renewed attention, though it's now been renamed to "low energy nuclear reactions" or LENR for short. In this video I look at what we know and don't know, and how promising it is.
As we've discussed so many times at The Sacred Science, what I'm about to present isn't new information - "it's powerful folk medicine that has been swept under the rug and forgotten, but definitely not lost.
I still remember the absolute
"First they examined the possible cause of the condition. Although it's unknown, doctors have previously pinpointed beta-amyloid, a sticky protein that can disrupt communication between the brain cells and neurons. When it clings to metals, such
How, I wondered, could I have been saying two things simultaneously in my mind? Was I deceiving myself? Was this, mentally, normal? I silenced the beeper on my belt and pulled out my phone to make a voice memo of the bizarre experience before I walke
On a hot tarmac in the peak of summer, an airplane's crew has little choice but to run the air conditioner to keep themselves and their passengers cool. But soon, crews could become less reliant on the A.C., thanks to a new lightweight, ultra-white
Made a curious observation today while walking through a local woodland. It looked something like this image, but that is not important.
What was important is that it has been dry for weeks, yet the fungus was surrounded by wet bark to several inche
Penny Spikins received funding from The John Templeton Foundation, grant 59475, for the production of Hidden Depths: the origins of human connection (White Rose University Press).
Wax model of male Neanderthal head with long hair, headband and b
We create knowledge by exploring reality's frontiers: we study the coldest, the furthest, the lowest and highest energies, and the smallest things in the universe. But reaching these frontiers is no small feat ?" typically, it requires building a
In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lead author and neurophysiologist Charles Dickey identified patterns of ripples - brief high frequency oscillations in neural activity - that synchronize across the h
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has caused the worldwide pandemic, is a highly transmissible disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This virus, just like all other coronaviruses, is characte
The new measurement matches a prediction based on the theory, which attributes cuprate superconductivity to a quantum phenomenon called superexchange. "I'm amazed by the quantitative agreement," said André-Marie Tremblay, a physicist at the Un
Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
Flote
LRN.fm
DLive
Live Chat Telegram
Share this page with your friends
on your favorite social network: