Tag: death
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Advanced tool. Prehistoric people. Tears and laughter…
Artefacts such as bows and arrows do not necessarily prove our ancestors had sophisticated reasoning and understanding of how these tools worked, new research suggests. Instead, such items could have emerged from an "accumulation of improvements made across generations" - with each generation understanding no more than the last. The new study, by the University…
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Reverse evolution
The study of evolution is revealing new complexities, showing how the traits most beneficial to the fitness of individual plants and animals are not always the ones we see in nature. Instead, new research by behavioral scientists shows that in certain cases evolution works in the opposite direction, reversing individual improvements to benefit related members…
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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. AntBot, a robot designed by CNRS and Aix-Marseille University (AMU) researchers at ISM, copies the desert ants' exceptional navigation capacities to navigate without the use of GPS. (1) Navigating…
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Καλή Ανάσταση! (On the irrationality of the modern belief in death)
Happy Easter! ("Καλή Ανάσταση" in Greek literally means 'Happy Resurrection') And let not the irrationality of the miracle of resurrection hinder you from believing. The most important things in life we anyway do not understand. Our self. Being. The cosmos itself. And yet we are defined by them. And we live by them. Yes, the…
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Slowly… Dying… Living for ever…
A big earthquake occurred south of Istanbul in the summer of 2016, but it was so slow that nobody noticed. The earthquake, which took place at mid-crustal depth, lasted more than fifty days. Only a novel processing technique applied to data from special borehole strainmeter instruments and developed by researchers from the GFZ German Research…
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