In a famous 1950s experiment, college students were asked to point out which of three lines...
We automatically second-guess ourselves when other people disagree.
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Yasmeen Jaber
It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
In space, light travels at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second. Even at this...
20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest
Our atmosphere is made up of roughly 78 % nitrogen and 21 % oxygen, with various other gases...
Music not only effects our mood, but effects how we perceive the world.
A new study by researcher Jacob Jolij and student Maaike Meurs of the Psychology Department...
Sleep Cleans Your Brain
Researchers at Boston University in Massachusetts have found that during sleep, the fluid...
There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive
Most of the volcanoes probably stopped one billion years ago, but NASA findings have...
The current American flag was designed by a high school student
It started as a school project for Bob Heft’s junior-year history class, and it only earned a...
Climate change is causing flowers to change color.
An increase in UV radiation due to the ozone layer deteriorating over the past decades has...
Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.
The songs that males use to attract mates are considered to be the loudest of all marine...
Are you breathing or living?
As a cause of evolution we have become more concerned in our future than in our present. Some...
The starry night
Van Gogh painted The Starry Night while he was a patient at the saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a...
Art used to be an Olympics event
“The founder of the modern Games, the Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was enamoured with the idea...
Dreaming In Black and White
Humans used to dream in black and white way more than they used incorporate colors into their...