Solving an old maritime mystery, cognitive psychologists used the testimony of German soldiers, long thought to be contrived, to locate the wreck of the HMAS Sydney.
It is not possible to tickle yourself! The cerebellum warns the rest of the brain that you are about to do it. And since your brain is informed, it ignores the resulting sensation.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual prayer that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual prayer that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
Because Gliese 581 is only 1% as bright as the Sun, it exudes little warmth, and its habitable zone lies much closer. At this distance, planets get locked into strong gravitational pulls that tend to slow their rotation.
The white, cloudy contrails that airplanes often leave in the sky may be full of ice crystals, but they're warming the globe. They trap infrared radiation on its way out into space which slightly heats the Earth.
The white, cloudy contrails that airplanes often leave in the sky may be full of ice crystals, but they're warming the globe. They trap infrared radiation on its way out into space which slightly heats the Earth.
Prairie dogs are rodents, not dogs. Their warning call sounds like a dogs' bark though. Their burrows house thousands and can extend for miles in all directions.
Prairie dogs are rodents, not dogs. Their warning call sounds like a dogs' bark though. Their burrows house thousands and can extend for miles in all directions.
Many of these settlements were built later than 650 AD. Clearly the weather hadn't been the cause of the Moche’s demise. Also, instead of constructing huacas, the Moche started building fortresses. They had been at war.
Moche villages and/or clan groups turned on each other in a battle for scarce resources like food and land. This escalated to the point where the Moche replaced ritual battles and human sacrifices with civil war.
Their throats cut, the blood of the vanquished drained into a cup and the cup was then drunk by a God-like deity. It was, the archaeologists slowly realized, a story not of war but ritual combat followed by human sacrifice.
The Moche's story is an epic account of a society that thought it could control the world and what happened to it when it found it couldn't. It's a story of human achievement and natural disaster, human sacrifice and war.
Prairie dogs are rodents, not dogs. Their warning call sounds like a dogs' bark though. Their burrows house thousands and can extend for miles in all directions.
If companies burn all the fossil fuel they have now, it would emit 2,795 gigatons of CO2 – 5X the safe amount. We'll have huge global warming and a catastrophe for life on earth.
The Weather Project installation in London drew more than two million (wow!) people, who lay on the floor during the cold British winter, basking in the fake sunlight and enjoying communal warmth
The Weather Project installation in London drew more than two million (wow!) people, who lay on the floor during the cold British winter, basking in the fake sunlight and enjoying communal warmth.
The Weather Project installation in London drew more than two million (wow!) people, who lay on the floor during the cold British winter, basking in the fake sunlight and enjoying communal warmth.
The Weather Project installation in London drew more than two million (wow!) people, who lay on the floor during the cold British winter, basking in the fake sunlight and enjoying communal warmth.
This Weather Project installation drew more than two million (yes, two million!) people, who lay on the floor during the cold British winter basking in the fake sunlight and experiencing communal warmth.
The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor reignites an ancient war and is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth.