10 Sci Words for College Grads

How can a paper scorpion actually save your life? The origami algorithms used to fold bugs are the same ones behind the invention of the air bags in your car.

The Big Bang theory says our universe was created when a tiny (billions X smaller than a proton), super-dense, super-hot mass exploded and began expanding very rapidly, eventually cooling into the stars and galaxies of today.

Using the Gemini Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, a team of astronomers calculated the black hole’s mass, which is vastly larger than the black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Conflict theories draw attention to power differentials, such as class conflict, and generally contrast historically dominant ideologies.

Computer encryption is based on the science of cryptography. Ciphers have been employed for military purposes for centuries -- like the scytale used by Greek generals as early as 3rd century BC.

According to Functional Theory, education and society reflect each other.

In just a few weeks, a patient with a number of medical problems can have their entire genome sequenced. Doctors can then sift through the data to see which genes are altered and how they might intervene.

Neanderthals
Scientists say that Neanderthals matured more rapidly than homo sapiens, living fast and dying young. By aging slower, humans had more time to organize socially and learn.

A team of scientists in Vienna Austria, led by physicist, Prof. Dr. Anton Zeilinger, transfered the information stored on a stream of photons 143 kilometers from two islands off the Atlantic coasts of northern Africa.

Conventional wisdom is that placebos require deception to work, but an intriguing Harvard study suggests placebos can work even if patients know they're taking a fake pill.