Category: Science
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Upside down…
What feels like up may actually be some other direction depending on how our brains process our orientation, according to psychology researchers. Researchers found that an individual's interpretation of the direction of gravity can be altered by how their brain responds to visual information. (1) Or we could say it another way around: What happens…
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New genes! New inventions! So?! (Me!)
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1) Things discovered. Only because they would anyway be. By someone else. In the…
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DISCUSSION EVENT: Foundations on Sand: Do We Actually Know Anything?
HARMONIA PHILOSOPHICA EVENT Foundations on Sand: Do We Actually Know Anything? A 30-Minute Harmonia Philosophica Flash Philosophy Session Science is often presented as a knowledge realm related to truth. But every scientific theory rests on axioms—assumptions that cannot be proven, only accepted. If our scientific 'truths' are built on 'soft' faith, where does that leave…
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Oceans. Oxygen. Paradoxes.
With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. (1) Oceans without oxygen. Planets without life. Cosmos without consciousness. But look again. Oxygen without oxygen. Life without life. Unconscious consciousness. Can't you feel it? Nothing can include itself! Unless it does…
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The farthest galaxy…
A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the oldest galaxy but also the most distant. It's so distant it defines the very boundary of the observable universe itself. The team hopes this study can shed light…
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