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Re-Enchanting Science: Mystery and Interconnectedness within Nature | Hila Tzipora Chase | TEDxCUNY
How do we understand the relationship between our bodies and nature? What are the unknown and untouched forces that connect us all with the natural world? Join Hila as she weaves in and out of our conscious understanding of ourselves … Continue reading
What Caused Life’s Major Evolutionary Transitions?
Join us as we explore the fascinating transition from early cells to multi-celled animals. This transition, as well as several other major evolutionary transitions, dramatically increased the complexity of lifeforms on our planet.[…]
How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest | Decoder
What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.
Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Brain Young | Elizabeth Amini | TEDxSoCal
Elizabeth Amini is a social entrepreneur with a background in science. She learned data analysis while working as a scientist at JPL/NASA. Elizabeth earned a bachelors degree in Cognitive Science (the study of the brain) from Occidental College and an … Continue reading
The Origins and Evolution of Language | Michael Corballis | TEDxAuckland
Nearly everybody can communicate, and most do so through some form of language, and yet the question of where language came from is one of the most difficult questions in science. Psychologist and author, Michael Corballis explores the many theories … Continue reading
Why languages and dialects really are different animals
Admirers of Josip Broz Tito from all over the former Yugoslavia convene in Belgrade on the occasion of the late marshal’s birthday. Photo by Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Søren Wichmann is a Danish linguist affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands, Kazan … Continue reading
Why scientists are still fascinated by Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage is considered to be Patient Zero for traumatic brain injury. The story of Gage at the time was that his damaged brain rendered him a different, monstrous person. This wasn’t true. Recent studies demonstrate that an injured brain … Continue reading
How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life
Carbon cycles through earth at a steady pace. Plants and microorganisms absorb carbon, which helps them grow. Animals and bacteria eat the plants, breathe out carbon into the atmosphere, and take some carbon underground when they die. And a similar … Continue reading
Plant-based diets benefit athletes’ heart health, endurance, recovery – ScienceBlog.com
Meat-free athletes–from tennis champion Venus Williams to Formula 1’s Lewis Hamilton to Derrick Morgan of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans–have already proven the performance-boosting power of a plant-based diet. Now, “Plant-Based Diets for Cardiovascular Safety and Performance in Endurance Sports,” a … Continue reading
Our universe has antimatter partner on the other side of the Big Bang, say physicists – Physics World
Our universe could be the mirror image of an antimatter universe extending backwards in time before the Big Bang. So claim physicists in Canada, who have devised a new cosmological model positing the existence of an “antiuniverse” which, paired to our own, … Continue reading
Empty Space is NOT Empty
An atom is mostly empty space, but empty space is mostly not empty. The reason it looks empty is because electrons and photons don’t interact with the stuff that is there, quark and gluon field fluctuations. It actually takes energy … Continue reading
Why Is The Speed Of Light The Speed Of Light? | Answers With Joe
You may be familiar with the speed of light, but the reason it exists and how we discovered it is pretty fascinating.[…]
