Yearly Archives: 2015
Smoking Thins Vital Part of Brain
February 11th, 2015
Years ago, children were warned that smoking could stunt their growth, but now a major study by an international team including the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the University of Edinburgh shows new evidence that long-term smoking ...
Wave function gets real in quantum experiment
February 2nd, 2015
It underpins the whole theory of quantum mechanics, but does it exist? For nearly a century physicists have argued about whether the wave function is a real part of the world or just a mathematical tool
Brain is not fully mature until 30s and 40s
January 17th, 2015
until around a decade ago many scientists had "pretty much assumed that the human brain stopped developing in early childhood," but recent research has found that many regions of the brain continue to develop for a long time afterwards.
The Truth About Long Hair, Spiritual Power, And Why Natives Wore Their Hair Long
January 13th, 2015
In Native cultures, men and woman are recognized by the length and glory of their hair. The cutting of hair by oppressors has long represented the submission and defeat of a People, through humiliation.
The startling sense of smell found all over your body
January 12th, 2015
Bemused biologists have found the machinery that helps us identify smells and tastes crops up everywhere – from our kidneys to sperm. After many years they think they might know why, as Veronique Greenwood reports.
