When faced with making choices, but lack sufficient evidence to guarantee success, our brain uses elapsed time as a proxy for task difficulty to calculate how confident we should be, a […]
Certainty In Our Choices Often A Matter Of Time, Study Finds
NASA Rover Finds Active, Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
Possible Methane Sources and Sinks Source: NASA This illustration portrays possible ways that methane might be added to Mars’ atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has […]
Earth’s Most Abundant Mineral Finally Has A Name: Bridgmanite!
An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth. And in […]
Happy-Go-Lucky CEOs Score Better Returns
A CEO’s natural sunny disposition can have an impact on the way the market reacts to announcements of company earnings, according to research from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School […]
Researchers Detect Possible Signal From Dark Matter
Could there finally be tangible evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe? After sifting through reams of X-ray data, scientists in EPFL’s Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) […]
The Battle Over Alfred Nobel’s Testament
On 2 January 1897, the will of Alfred Nobel, the deceased Swedish dynamite millionaire was widely published. The bulk of his great fortune was left to form a fund, from the annual […]
11/12/2014: State Capitalism and International Economic Law*
Topic: State Capitalism and International Economic Law Date: 11 December 2014 Time: 12 noon Venue: Lancaster University Law School Bowland North SR5, UK Speaker: Dr Ming Du (Law School) will present his […]
The Testament Of Alfred Nobel (Full Text)
scroll down for full txt Today Nobel Prize Award Ceremony In Stockholm, Sweden Full text Testament Alfred Nobel I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, do hereby, after mature deliberation, declare the following […]
Again Thousands Of Einstein Documents Available Online For Free
Thousands of Einstein documents are available online for free Princeton University in the US has launched the Digital Einstein Papers project – an open-access site that will deliver the extensive written legacy […]
Science Suggests Mars Maintained Climate Producing Long-Lasting Lakes
Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale […]
Analysis: Is Islamism In Decline?
Poised opposite Cairo university stands a grand statue of a traditional peasant woman (often used to depict Egypt) lifting her veil while standing next to a couchant Sphinx. The statue known as […]
Is Islamism In Decline? (Column)
On December 6 Thomas L. Friedman published a column with the title How ISIS drives Muslims from Islam in the New York Times. I totally agree with this. It’s only strange that […]
The Face of Saint Nicholas: Some Forensic Pathology
Modern forensic anthropology has developed tools to help discover what people looked like. These techniques are primarily used to assist in identifying unknown crime victims. However, they can be used also […]
War Drones In Support Of Science
The Predator drone is an iconic symbol of America’s current wars, and it’s younger — but bigger — Predator-B sibling often goes by the ominous name Reaper. In NASA’s hands, the Predator-B […]
