Each of us, lately, as a result of Covid-19, chooses the expert who says what we want to hear. We repeat what he says without paying as much attention to what he says. They are ready-to-wear expert opinions. And that is possible only…
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Tania A. Reynolds, Postdoc at the Kinsey Institute, and her colleagues have found that in several studies there is a gender bias in the moral sphere: women are more easily classified as victims and men as perpetrators…
Inspired by the tough cellular skin of the grapefruit and the fracture-resistant shells of the abalone, a gastropod mollusk, engineers at Durham University claim to have created the first non-cuttable material ever made.
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The true number of coronavirus cases in the United States could be 6 to 24 times higher than the confirmed number of cases, according to a large federal study that drew on data from 10 cities and states in the country.
The study, published…
The meaning of many of our behaviors depends on the context. Lying is one of them. That's why white lies exist, for example. Lying at the police station is not the same as lying to a friend if their chocolate cake…
The flexibility of our palate is extraordinary, and to a large extent it is something learned (although there is a biological, innate basis). That is why there are cultures where it is normal to eat things that in others are vomiting, such as blood sausage,...
More than 100 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues discovered that some fruit flies had inherited genetic mutations that caused their body color to change. The mine…
Manganese is a grayish-white transition metal, similar to iron. It is a hard and very brittle metal, refractory and easily oxidizable. It is one of the most abundant elements on the Earth's surface. It has now been confirmed…
Richard Feynman claimed to be the only observer to see the explosion without dark glasses, protecting himself from the harmful ultraviolet rays only behind the glass of a truck. Around 260 people witnessed the test, none…
Born in Alabama in 1929, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Edward O. Wilson is a world-renowned entomologist, especially in the field of ants, and here, with Genesis, the Origin of Cultures, he once again demonstrates…