Uncommon science: eye-opening scientific findings and impressive technological advances. Interesting facts and thought-provoking theories about Human, Earth and the Universe
The mind’s eye, scientifically known as the pineal gland, is considered to be the gateway to higher levels of consciousness. In case you weren't aware, the pineal gland is a small pine cone-shaped endocrine gland in the brain that produces and secretes the hormone, melatonin. It is also believed that…
Technology has developed through the implementation of innovative ideas to supplement outdated methods of approaching technical problems. This has played a great part in saving time, costs, and promoting the overall production in the manufacturing industries. Reflecting on the definition, it is agreeable that artificial intelligence (A.I.) is the intelligence…
It seems that genes play a kind of ‘game’ during sexual recombination. Now, a distinguished Greek scientist who works in the USA has found an algorithm to describe this game. Professor of computer science Christos Papadimitriou together with his colleagues of the University of California-Berkeley created an algorithm which explains…
Researchers at UCL University in England developed a new model that will allow scientists to detect life on other planets outside of our Solar System with the highest accuracy achieved so far. The model is based on the detection of methane, the simplest organic molecule whose presence in the environment…
The recent discovery of a great number of potentially habitable exoplanets raises the Fermi paradox again: why haven’t we still come into contact with intelligent aliens? Climatologists might have finally given a plausible answer. The great physicist of the 20th century Enrico Fermi, when asked about the possibility of the…
We live in a day in age where we have the world at our fingertips; all of the knowledge we could ever want to seek is ours for the taking! Anything we can dream up, we can achieve. Life can be full of excitement and possibilities; yet, we are societies…
We are continually getting closer to finding the elixir of youth. In fact, we have found it, in a way. It is true, scientists have even been successful at utilizing this youthful concoction on lab mice - injecting the solution and watching the rodents completely regenerate into the youthful mice…
While everyone marvels over the Internet and mobile device technology, medical breakthroughs are happening nearly as fast. In fact, it's quite common for most technologies to be adapted to service other practical functions in various devices. It's a cohesive development as one improvement for a specific use is augmented to…
