Science and Physics

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Let Her Sleep In! Women Need More Sleep Than Men, Says Science.

Couples will sometimes fight over who sleeps in more. According to science, it turns out your wife should be the one sleeping in, not you.

Can Portobello Mushrooms Be Useful for Energy Production?

Apart from being the house of Smurfs and a good ingredient for almost any pasta sauce, portobello mushrooms seem to have a whole new aspect to them. They can be used to power the world.

Can an Artificial Intelligence Machine Be as Smart as a Four-year-old Child?

Machines of Artificial intelligence are a scientific field that is constantly on the rise. They have been known to easily beat humans in complex calculations and are a good opponent for chess. Now, researchers have gone one step further, making…

Is the Five-second Rule True?

The urban myth goes like that: when you drop food on the floor, if you pick it up in less than five seconds, then it is ok to eat it. Is that right, or it’s just another urban myth?

Can Drinking Beer Make Us Smarter?

Did you know that beer, or at least one of its ingredients, can enhance brain activity? Is this why you keep drinking beer?

Here Are 5 Great Maps That May Change the Way We See Some Things.

The maps we use have an effect on the way we understand the world that surrounds us. Since maps tend to be formed in an identical way – Europe in the centre and everything else revolving around it- some entirely…

What’s Going on in Our Brains During Sleep?

Scientists have always been intrigued by the way brain works when we are asleep and we dream. The REM phase, the rapid-eye-movement sleep phase, is the what we have long known happens when we dream: eyes move around fast during…

Scientists Reverse Aging in Human Cell Lines and Give Theory of Aging a New Lease of Life.

Can the process of aging be delayed or even reversed? Research led by specially appointed Professor Jun-Ichi Hayashi from the University of Tsukuba in Japan has shown that, in human cell lines at least, it can. They also found that…