The Origin Of Mistrust, Investigated In Twins
Is distrust the opposite of trust? No, say American researchers. Both feelings have their own origins, and only one is influenced by genes. Everyone has…
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Monthly Archive: April 2019
When Was Electricity Invented?
When was electricity invented? The question itself doesn’t make much sense as electricity is a natural phenomenon and therefore wasn’t “invented” as we typically understand…
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Most Populated Countries Around The World In 2019
What are the most populated countries in the world in 2019? This year the most populated countries are, in order: China, India, the United States,…
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SNG (Solidified Natural Gas) Technology For Gas Storage
Natural gas (NG) has been recognized as the cleanest burning fossil fuel and a vital resource to alleviate anthropogenic CO2 emissions to enable a transition…
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Synthetic Salinity Model: An Alternative To Expensive And Time-Consuming, Ground-Based Soil Salinity Measurements
Climate change and associated sea-level rise is an imminent and inevitable threat for low-lying countries like Bangladesh. Additionally, a new concern of increased salinity is…
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Gaps In Perception: How We See A Stable World Through Moving Eyes
We see the most detail in the center of our visual field. This region is called the fovea: it is most densely packed with receptors…
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Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Stress Hormones To Weaken The Effects Of Stressful Events
In Stephen King’s 1981 novel Cujo (adapted to film in 1983), a boy and his mother are trapped in their car as a rabid Saint…
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Brain Stimulation Boosts Peripheral Vision
Most of our interactions with the external world are mediated by our visual senses. Approximately 20% of the human neocortex is devoted to the processing…
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Using Zebrafish to Study Microbiota of the Gut
An explosion of research in recent years has brought to light the multitude of ways in which the gut microbiota influences animal health and development….
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Judging Partner Identity In A Turing Test
In a Turing test, a human participant interacts with two agents through a text interface. One of the agents is human, while the other is…
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Online Program For Couples Results In Long-Term Gains In Relationship Functioning And Individual Health
Nearly half of first-time marriages end in divorce (Copen, Daniels, Vespa, & Mosher, 2012) and more than one-third of marriages are relationally distressed at any…
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