Uncommon science: eye-opening scientific findings and impressive technological advances. Interesting facts and thought-provoking theories about Human, Earth and the Universe
Have you ever wondered how the world will be in 100 years? No one can know it from now, but prominent scientists (physicists, biologists, and sociologists) who study the evolution of society, human life, and the world, in general, make such kinds of predictions based solely on scientific data. This…
Certain scientific studies claim that LSD effects can prove to be beneficial. What are the positive effects of the well-known psychedelic drug? It looks like when it comes to the treatment of alcoholism and the improvement of terminal cancer patients, LSD effects have broken historic taboos. David Nichols, professor of…
Delicious dishes that are part of the menu in the popular fast food outlets do not only "burden" our silhouette with extra pounds but affect our mental health, too, according to a study by Spanish researchers. As researchers from the University of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, explained in a publication…
A British psychologist carries out a mass participation experiment in order to verify whether a new iPhone app called Dream:On can positively influence human dreams. The application is developed by a scientific team led by Richard Wiseman, professor at the University of Hertfordshire. It is considered to monitor and record sleep…
In 1976, NASA conducted a research mission on Mars called Viking. It was an experiment of sending special robots to the red planet and it was aimed to detect extraterrestrial life. Thirty-six years later, an international team of mathematicians and other scientists concluded that the mission could have actually discovered traces…
The question of whether machines can compete with human intelligence has concerned the scientific community since 1950 when Alan Turing published his world-changing paper. The science of artificial intelligence provides a series of challenges that must be overcome before the dream of Turing could be realized. If you are put…
Scientists have designed a device that is claimed to read thoughts. They tried the "iBrain" on British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. In a way, they were able to read Stephen Hawking's mind. A mind-reading device is created by scientists in California to be used in patients with diseases such as that…
What if we could look into the depths of the ancient universe? It could be that there is more reality to this statement than it sounds. After seven years of research, scientists from the University of California (UCLA) have managed to construct an instrument called ‘time machine’ which allows them…
