Superaccurate Clocks Confirm Time is Slower for Your Feet
Einstein’s Gravitational Time Dilation Confirmed on Human Scale Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts that time passes more slowly in stronger gravitational fields. This effect,...
New Ultracapacitor Recharges in Under a Millisecond
Breakthrough in Ultracapacitor Technology: Microsecond Charging Now Possible A groundbreaking ultracapacitor design, also known as an electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC), was unveiled in the journal...
Humans Less Genetically Complex than a Chocolate Biscuit
It is a curious finding that, on a numerical basis, humans appear genetically less complex than a chocolate biscuit. Recent research has advanced our understanding...
Garden of Eden found in Africa
A strip of land along Africa’s southern coast is believed to have served as a crucial refuge for early humans during an ice age that...
Discovery of Stem Cell Illuminates Human Brain Evolution, Points to Therapies
UCSF scientists have discovered a new stem cell in the developing human brain. The cell produces nerve cells that help form the neocortex — the...
Berkeley Scientists Discover Inexpensive Metal Catalyst for Generating Hydrogen from Water
An article about this was first written in May 2010 and this article is an update for October 2024. The summary is that hydrogen...
Gifts from the Sixth Dimension
String theory continues to be a prominent framework in theoretical physics, proposing that our universe may have 10 or 11 dimensions, with 6 or 7...
People Hear With Their Skin as Well as Their Ears, Study Says
Hearing with Our Skin Recent research has revealed that our skin can play a surprising role in auditory perception, effectively allowing us to “hear”...
Bacteria Provide New Insights into Human Decision Making
Bacterial Survival Strategies Offer Insights into Human Decision-Making and Survival Recent research into how bacteria respond to stress and make collective survival decisions is providing...
Nonsense DNA May be Important to Evolution
Introns are sections of DNA that exist within genes but do not directly code for proteins. Think of them as interruptions in the genetic instructions...