The Nature of Human Consciousness: Are We Quantum Beings?

The nature of human consciousness is one of the most challenging yet less understood problems in cognitive science. As Ken Palmer, the psychology professor, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern once remarked: The debate about the neural basis of consciousness rages because there is no widely accepted…

Scientist is Turning Each Element of the Periodic Table Into Music

Scientists have now found and interesting way to understand the periodic table of elements. With the advancement of technology, scientists have now found a way to assign a musical signature to each of the elements in the periodic table. Spearheading this research is mechanical engineer Asegun Henry who works as…

Did You Know That This Fruit Can Generate Antimatter?

With so many Sci-Fi featuring antimatter, the term is no longer an incog, but only a few people know that the complex material actually does exist. Moreover, few laboratories have even produced almost 17 nanograms of antimatter synthetically on earth. Well, in response to the question asked in the title,…

Magnetic Monopoles: New Evidence of the Mysterious Particles Predicted 80 Years Ago

Since the great Scottish scientist George Clerk Maxwell’s formulation of his electromagnetic theory in 1865, which formed one of the pillars of modern physics, researchers have made a long way towards a better understanding of electromagnetic fields. His work led to the unification of electric and magnetic field that was analogous…

Stephen Hawking: The Discovery of Higgs Boson Made Physics Less Interesting

Ok! When Stephen Hawking makes a statement, people usually listen carefully. At times, he has made some very curious statements, but who can deny the fact that he is arguably the biggest theoretical physics mind of the time. When the discoverer of the Hawking Radiation, the creator of the gravitational…