Christner’s team examined precipitation from global locations and demonstrated that the most active ice nuclei - a substrate that enhances the formation of ice - are biological in origin. This is important because the formation of ice in clouds is required for snow and most rainfall.
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While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena.
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The three-year study involved 118 people age 85 and older with no memory problems. Half of the participants took ginkgo biloba extract three times a day and half took a placebo. During the study, 21 people developed mild memory problems, or questionable dementia: 14 of those took the placebo and seven took the ginkgo extract.
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Kudos to Google for expanding their already existing program, which had begun in 2006 with then independent startup GrandCentral, acquired by Google last year.
The original program had GrandCentral working with S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Project Homeless Connect, and has given out more than 4,000 “for life” phone numbers and voicemail accounts. The new program […]
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Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from about A.D. 300 to 1500.
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As they prepare to host the Olympics - ‘ an event whose very purpose is to push the limits of human beings - ‘ the Chinese are trying to do what man never has: Control the weather.
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It may be difficult to believe, but 19-year-old Ashleigh Morris, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water. She’s lived with the condition since she was 14, and it’s so bad that even sweating will cause her to break out in a rash.
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Last year AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said we’d get a 3G iPhone this year (and I’m sure Steve Jobs was really happy he opened his mouth). Of course, no date was given, just that we would have it this year.
Thursday UBS analyst Nicolas Gaudois narrowed the timeframe a bit for us, posting a research […]
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Scientists have long known that most compounds in living things exist in mirror-image forms. The two forms are like hands; one is a mirror reflection of the other. They are different, cannot be superimposed, yet identical in their parts.
But amino acids, which are the building blocks of terrestrial proteins, are all ‘left-handed,’ while […]
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Do bats have animal magnetism? Yes, say researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton who say they have discovered that bats use a magnetic substance in their body called magnetite as an ‘internal compass’ to help them navigate.
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