A newly-released study suggest that people pick up on accents when first meeting someone even more than they see race. Researchers at Harvard University examined “youngsters” to see who they would align with, someone of their own race, or someone with a similar accent. The study, from developmental psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler and [...more]
Wolverine’s healing factor is now ours, all ours! Right now, if you want to knit bones together, it takes a while. Researchers have found a way to speed the whole thing up by tapping into a thin tissue called “periosteum,” which is found lining all bones and contains delicious, bone transforming stem cells. To repair major breaks [...more]
By simply oxygenating alcoholic drinks, scientists have been able to shorten people’s drunkenness and all but cured hangovers. The reason behind it is that when one drinks, they aren’t getting enough oxygen from their blood. That’s why drinking water while drinking liquor helps keep one from getting hangovers. The drinks with the [...more]
In a really interesting but slightly confusing study, scientists showed that kindness is contagious — even if it doesn’t make sense. Political scientist James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University published their study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Basically, [...more]
A Stanford study has finally given of evidence of what we’ve always known deep down – people are seriously addicted to their iPhones. The Stanford study involved 200 students, who were asked to rate their opinion of their iPhone usage on a scale from one to five, one being “not addicted” and five being “fully addicted.” [...more]
A new iPhone app called Noah turns anyone with a cell phone, some legs and some time into a citizen scientist. The app lets users update a map with mushrooms, animals, trees — any flora or fauna — so that scientists can see changes or mini surveys of an area without all the work. [...more]
Did you know that there are no voice recordings of computer pioneer Alan Turing, or of hovercraft inventor Christopher Cockerell? You think someone would have shoved a microphone in the face of Nobel laureate AV Hill at some point, but no – these scientists, in fact, 30 major British scientists – including 9 Nobel winners [...more]
Scientists credit African dust with fertilizing the Hawaii rain forests — giving new insight into how remote forests sprout and grow on what was once volcanic rock. Oliver Chadwick from the University of California, Santa Barbara, said they were able to track the African dust to the rain forest floor. “Hawaii is one of [...more]
If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking or quit eating fast food or kick a nasty heroin habit, you probably know that once you get a taste of that old addiction, you’re right back to selling your roommates TV for a Big Mac. Now scientists give a bit of a glimpse into why people [...more]
A man who designed a working oxygen farm for Mars turned his efforts toward earth with the new fuel-cell power plant dubbed the Bloom Box. The idealist genius said reverse engineered his work on the oxygen farm, and instead of pumping out oxygen, he pumped it in and created electrical power. CBS talked to [...more]
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