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Your Taste In Music Is Influenced By The Shape Of Your Skull
Why is it that some songs get your toes tapping and others leave you cold? Part of the answer may lie in the unique shape of your skull.In addition to the obvious social and cultural influences on...
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How To Break The Sound Barrier With A Ping Pong Ball
Getting students excited about science isn’t always easy, but having a live demonstration that uses ping pong balls traveling at supersonic speeds will get almost any kid's attention.Mechanical...
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Newly Discovered Giant Viruses Could Be A New Branch On The Tree Of Life
(ISNS) — The discovery of two new jumbo-sized viruses is blurring the lines between viral and cellular life and could point to the existence of a new type of life, scientists suggest.The two large...
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New Study Suggests Low-Calorie Diets Make Monkeys Live Longer
(ISNS) -- In March, the health media wrote of a new link between old age and caloric restriction. We were told that hunger is healthy; scientists praise intermittent fasting; and if you eat less you'll...
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How Movie Editing Tricks Your Brain Into Ignoring Errors
When your job is to be vigilant and spot things that are out of place, as is the case for an airport security screener or a film editor, you are trained to have laser-sharp attention to detail. If most...
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Why Does Time Flow Forward?
Almost nothing is more obvious than the fact that time flows from the past, which we remember, toward the future, which we don’t. Scientists and philosophers call this the psychological arrow of time....
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Ancient Egyptians Were Vegetarians
Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you're a vegetarian, tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home.In fact, eating lots of meat is a recent phenomenon. In...
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A 40-Year-Old Magazine Article Still Haunts Climate Scientists Today
"The central fact is that, after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling...
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Two Exoplanets Will Soon Die A Fiery Death
In 130 to 155 million years, Earthlings might get a front-row seat to the death of not one, but two planets.Gongji Li, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,...
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Tiny Drones Will Help Predict The Behavior Of Hurricanes
When a major storm develops, we want to know where it will hit and how strong it will be. Currently, the best way to study a hurricane is to fly a plane near the storm to collect data. But, that...
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A Mathematical Explanation For Why People Behave Irrationally
Quantum theory, developed about a century ago to explain the puzzling behavior of elementary particles, could also help explain seemingly irrational aspects of human reasoning.The mathematics behind...
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This New Smartphone Device Can Check Your Cholesterol
From selfies, to games, to measuring heart rate and calories burned, today's smartphone apps can do a lot of things.Now, researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have developed a device...
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Why Educated People Need Glasses
When most people picture a stereotypical nerd, they think of glasses and a pocket protector. Turns out there may be some truth behind that idea. New research suggests that number of years of study is...
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This New Device Is Designed To Detect When You Get Sleepy And Nudge You Awake
We've all been there…a long day of work or school, and you feel yourself dozing off at your desk…or worse…while driving.Now, Jason Gui, co-founder of Vigo, a San Francisco-based company, has developed...
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Why Russian Is So Much Harder To Learn Than English
More than 100 years ago, the playwright Oscar Wilde had one of his British characters say that England and America "have everything in common nowadays except, of course, language.” It turns out,...
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How Weather Can Topple Empires
(Inside Science) -- If El Niño, the periodic Pacific weather pattern, returns this winter, the increased rain could save California from its current severe drought. But while El Niño can rescue areas...
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Here's Why Old Chocolate Gets That Gross White Film
A streaming cocoa curtain gently drapes rows of baked goods — marzipan, cookies, caramel-filled nougat — to enrobe the confectionery in a rich, glossy layer of chocolate. Chocolate manufacturers begin...
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This super-light material can hold 100,000 times its own weight
They may look flimsy, but the materials printed with 3-D printing technology are one-of-a-kind, light-weight and super-strong.Materials engineers at LLNL have created a material with a special 3-D...
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Researchers put a beatboxer in an MRI and were amazed by what they found
Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that one might never expect to come from the human body is the specialty of the artists known as beatboxers. Now scientists have used scanners...
View ArticleScientists reveal the truth about Shark attacks
The experts weigh in on all things sharks and shark attacks. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know — but may have been too afraid to ask. Video courtesy of Inside Science Sign up for more Inside...
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