Category: Cosmos
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Magnetic sense. Astronomy. Void cosmos. Humans moving.
The human brain can unconsciously respond to changes in Earth's magnetic fields, according to a team of geoscientists and neurobiologists. This interdisciplinary study revives a research area in neuroscience that has remained dormant for decades. (1) We used to believe we can sense the cosmos. We used to have astrology and religion. Now we have…
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Gods. Playing...
Humans trying to find the meaning of life. Humans trying to understand existence. Trying to decipher being. Philosophers trying to understand change. Physicists trying to define time. Biologists trying to know life. We were kids.Trying to play. But the game is no longer a game.Angered by our failures to know.Insisting to know more and more...…
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Invisible table…
Making objects invisible is no longer the stuff of fantasy but a fast-evolving science. 'Invisibility cloaks' using metamaterials now exist, and are beginning to be used to improve the performance of satellite antennas and sensors. Many of the proposed metamaterials, however, only work at limited wavelength ranges such as microwave frequencies. Now, scientists report a…
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Seeing through your eyes…
Everyday life is full of situations that require us to take others' perspectives - for example, when showing a book to a child, we intuitively know how to hold it so that they can see it well, even if it is harder to see for ourselves. Or when performing before an audience, we often can't…
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Self-navigation…
Human eyes are insensitive to polarized light and ultraviolet radiation, but that is not the case for ants, who use it to locate themselves in space. Cataglyphis desert ants in particular can cover several hundreds of meters in direct sunlight in the desert to find food, then return in a straight line to the nest,…
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