Notes of the ancient astronomers, kept on tablets of burned clay, confirm that the rotation speed of the Earth around its own axis decreases according to a material published by the Proceedings magazine, of the Royal Society A, informs the Live Science. In each century, the length of a solar day, or the period of time during which the planet makes one complete rotation around … [Read more...]
The explicit images from the cigar packets contribute to the decreasing of the deaths caused by smocking
Using pictures with explicit warnings against smoking on the cigar packets may contribute to the avoidance of over 652.000 deaths in the next 50 years in the United States only, informs the Science Daily. It can also prevent the bringing into the world of about 92,000 of children with weight below the normal one, the birth of about 145,000 of premature infants and may help … [Read more...]
According to the science, the age at which we have the first child is written in the DNA
The scientists identified 12 areas of DNA sequence associated with the age at which a person has the first child, and with the total number of children that will have along the life. This study, to which worked over 250 sociologists, biologists and geneticists from several institutions in the world, was published on Tuesday in 'Nature Genetics', informs the Science Daily. About … [Read more...]
The brain gets used with the lies, in time
The lies can be like the snow balls which, once running to the valley, they get bigger, according to a study made by the University College London. The scientists found that, as the habit of lying continues, the brain gets used to it and it desensitized. In many cases, the lies start from innocent truths and come to escalate, and the examples are all over the place in the … [Read more...]
The researches unmounted a 200 year old theory: the ovules can be eliminated from the reproductive process
An international scientists team affirms that the reproduction without the help of the ovules will be possible one day. They manage to obtain healthy young mice, making the sperm cells to 'think' that they were fertilizing normal ovules. The discovery, published in the Nature Communications, could make that, in the far away future, the women to be eliminated from the process of … [Read more...]