While conducting a survey of Ancient Greek temples built in the Italian island of Sicily, expert Dr. Alun Salt found that only three of them were constructed in positions that did not make them face the rising Sun. The scientist, who is an astronomy technician at the University of Leicester's Center for Interdis... |
25 November 2009
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Every year, hoards of hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico, across the continental US, in a 4,000-mile journey led entirely by the Sun. Scientists have wondered for a long time how come the small insects can navigate sophisticatedly enough to follow the path of the star non-stop, ... |
25 September 2009
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As hinted at in books, folklore tales and scary movies, people seem to actually have the tendency of walking in circles when they are lost, or when they do not have any landmarks nearby to guide them on the correct path. The new study was conducted by a team of experts from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cyb... |
21 August 2009
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The difference between men and women is not just physical. Inner differences translate into brain particularities and that shot of estrogen or testosterone during embryo development that makes a man or a woman heterosexual or homosexual does count. The brain differences are reflected in behavioral differences. A te... |
24 May 2007
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What's inside a woman's head is very different from what's inside a man's head. Researchers know that the way neurons fire inside the brain differs related to sex, and this determines differences in how a woman's and a man's brains function. Now a research team has found that the way a b... |
16 April 2007
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