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Why did our brains shrink?
We’ve lost a lemon sized piece of brain. Here’s three hypotheses that try to explain what happened. Sources: Hawks, John. “Selection for smaller brains in Holocene human evolution.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5604 (2011). HENNEBERG, MACIEJ. “Decrease of Human Skull Size in … Continue reading
How do particle accelerators make neutrinos? | Even Bananas
Neutrinos are neutral, meaning the magnets in a particle accelerator can’t manipulate them. So how can scientists make a dense beam of neutrinos for their experiments? Neutrino physicist Kirsty Duffy and Fermilab accelerator operator Laura Bolt explain the power of … Continue reading
The Strange Science of Why We Dream
[…] It would be a lot easier to study the science of dreaming if we weren’t asleep every time we did it. Why do we dream? What does dreaming do for our brains? How did dreaming evolve? Here’s a look … Continue reading
How trance states forged human society through transcendence | Aeon Essays
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians pray on the last day of ‘Abiy Tsom’, fifty-five days of fasting ahead of Easter, at Medhane Alem Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 7 April 2018. Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Whether via music, dance … Continue reading
The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time
A playful polymath who is prone to leaping from string theory to Proust in mid-conversation, Vijay Balasubramanian of the University of Pennsylvania is a physicist, computer scientist and neuroscientist. He has made fundamental contributions to theories of black holes and … Continue reading
Why Genetic Engineering Can’t Do Everything (Yet)
[…] We’ve made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some “chicken and egg” problems to figure out. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
Groundbreaking earthquake discovery: Risk models overlook an important element | News, University of Copenhagen
Haitian earthquake. Photo: Getty GEOLOGY Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledge should be incorporated in computer models … Continue reading
Marta Halina: Charting Animal Cognition
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings. More on this video: aeon.co/videos/how-a-periodic-table-of-animal-intelligence-could-help-to-root-out-human-bias Watch more on Aeon: aeon.co/video Subscribe: vimeo.com/aeonvideo Interviewer: Sally Davies Producer: Kellen Quinn Cinematographer: … Continue reading
Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia | PubMed Central
Roscoe Stanyon,1 Marco Sazzini,2 and Donata Luiselli2 Figure 1 A simplified scenario of early human migration routes and dates. Modern humans originated in Africa, probably around 200,000 years ago (200 KYA). One or more routes out of Africa are possible, … Continue reading
A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | TED
Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love — with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she shares five reasons why these creatures are simply amazing (from their ability to poop … Continue reading
