Explicación natural a por qué el mundo es tridimensional.

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Físicos han teorizado que, poco después de su aparición, hace 13.800 millones de años, el Universo estaba lleno de nudos formados por hilos flexibles de energía uniendo las partículas elementales.  La idea proporciona una clara explicación de por qué habitamos un mundo tridimensional y se describe en un artículo aceptado para su publicación en el European […]

The Multiverse Is Inevitable, And We’re Living In It.

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Imagine that the Universe we observe, from end-to-end, is just a drop in the cosmic ocean. That beyond what we can see, there’s more space, more stars, more galaxies, and more everything, for perhaps countless billions of light years farther than we’ll ever be able to access. And that as large as the unobservable Universe […]

The Neuroscience of Singing.

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Singing Together Brings Heartbeats Into Harmony The neuroscience of singing shows that when we sing our neurotransmitters connect in new and different ways. It fires up the right temporal lobe of our brain, releasing endorphins that make us smarter, healthier, happier and more creative. When we sing with other people this effect is amplified. The […]

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found.

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The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe – protons, neutrons and electrons – unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a […]

Scientists Have Converted Carbon Dioxide Into Clean Air.

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A chemistry professor has found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the same time. The process has great potential for creating a technology that could significantly reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change, while also creating a clean […]

6 SURPRISING DOWNSIDES OF BEING EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT.

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You might think life would be easier, happier, and infinitely more fulfilling if only you could rack up a few more IQ points. But that’s hardly the case, as evidenced by the 100-plus answers on a Quora thread titled, “When does intelligence become a curse?“ Users wrote about everything from the absurdly high expectations that people […]

The Tree Of Languages Illustrated In One Gorgeous Infographic.

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When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages of the world, they oftentimes use a tree metaphor. The textbook version tends to be drab and boring, however, which is why Minna Sundberg, the creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silenttook the time to create a much more imaginative version. Arika Okrent of Mental Floss writes, “An ancient […]

How To Remain Calm During Any Argument Or Conflict Situation, Backed By Science

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When we lose our cool in a conflict, nothing gets resolved and we can feel guilty for our loss of control. But it is possible to learn how to remain calm. People disagree. This is an inevitable part of life. However, minor disagreements often escalate into something much worse, largely because we don’t work out […]

Why personality and not skill makes you a great employee.

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A recent international study surveyed more than 500 business leaders and asked them what sets great employees apart. The researchers wanted to know why some people are more successful than others at work, and the answers were surprising; leaders chose “personality” as the leading reason.   Notably, 78% of leaders said personality sets great employees […]