Author: Todd Livingston
Most of us feel like we are very disgusted when we hear about someone Climb their nails on the board. But for some people this fear response can also be triggered by strange, unfamiliar sounds.This concern is called misophonia, and new research from the UK suggests that more people suffer from it than previously thought. Vocalizations include things like chewing, slurping, snoring, and breathing and responses can range from mild anger and frustration to depression that interferes with daily life.”Our research revealed the complexity of the problem,” he explains University of Oxford psychologist Jane Gregory, who co-authored the study. “Misophonia…
A new type of orchid with delicate flowers like glass has been discovered by Japanese scientists, who discovered a pink and white plant hiding in the open.Despite its presence in parks and gardens in Japan, it took researchers at Kobe University ten years to prove that the plant – called Spiranthes hachijoensis – was a previously unknown species.“It was amazing to find a new kind of Spirantheswhich is so common that you can see it in parks, gardens, and among cooking plants,” lead researcher Kenji Suetsugu told AFP on Thursday.Some of the samples were “from plants and gardens”, including those…
On a road trip, you take a large water bottle that you bought at a gas station. Although the label promises a natural taste, the smell of chemicals washes over your tongue. You look at the bottle and learn that its sell-by date was a month ago.You read that right: bottled water can have an expiration date. This date warns you when leached chemicals will start to affect the taste of the water. It doesn’t tell you anything about the amount of dangerous microplastics in your drinks.The exact shelf life depends on the brand. The Fiji bottle has a shelf…
The flower’s ability to adapt to the attractive behavior of pollinators to attract its nectar has long intrigued scientists.Flowers can’t buy glasses and wigs to hide, so how they came up with such attractive things, using existing DNA tools, is amazing.Orchids are the most famous insect-like flower, and it can be seen by the irresistible smell of the unsuspecting insect, Casanova, whose little among the particles leaves an insect full of orchid pollen, so that it spreads to other flowers .Orchids evolved this behavior long ago, and with such great success that anyone without these traits is long gone.This is…
In this case, the water starts from a higher source than the tap. (It’s important.) As this inlet water flows down from the source, it increases rapidly and exits the waste valve. However, this moving water causes valve A to check, which prevents water from flowing out. But since the water is flowing through the closed valve, it is re-admitted above through another check valve, B, and causes the air to be compressed. When the air is compressed, the water stops flowing and valve B closes. When the valve closes, the compressed air acts as a spring to push the…
Looking to the stars of the constellations that guide birth and life has a long and complicated history, and archaeologists have just discovered a small piece of it.Fascinating paintings on the ceiling of an ancient Egyptian temple depict the 12 zodiac signs, and you may be surprised to recognize some of them.In addition to depictions of the zodiac, paintings restored in the beautiful Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt, dedicated to the ram-headed god Khnum and others, include images of the five planets of our Sun, the “seven arrows.” of Sekhmet, and some of the deans tried the night hours.It…
Are you comfortable? Just take a break and don’t change, notice how you live. What are your legs doing?Did they cross? And are you a right-handed or left-handed person? About 62 percent of people cross from right to left, 26 percent go the other way, and 12 percent have no preference.There are two ways to sit on a chair and cross your legs, one is on the knees and the other is on the feet. But as comfortable as it is to sit on the floor with your legs crossed, is it bad for your health and posture? Let’s look…
The newly developed propulsion system could send a heavy spacecraft to the outer reaches of our Solar System in less than 5 years – something that took the previous Voyager 1 probe 35 years to achieve.The idea, known as ‘pellet-beam’ propulsion, was initially awarded US$175,000 for NASA to develop earlier this year.To be clear, the concept here isn’t much more than a paper count, so we can’t get too excited just yet.However, it attracts attention not only because of its ability to transport us into space within the human soul – something that traditional, synthetic stones cannot – but also…
Again, we are talking about the source of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.Initially, the US Department of Energy’s investigation placed more emphasis on laboratory leaks than before, although confidence in this was low.The second, and most important, is the release and analysis this week of the virus and animal samples collected from the Huanan wet market in Wuhan, the place linked to the origin of the epidemic.It’s a close lesson for me. I was the Australian delegate to the World Health Organization (WHO) international investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I went to Wuhan on a fact-finding mission in…
NASA has unveiled a new spaceship that’s set to grace the next spacewalk on the Moon. But the appearance is a little misleading.At an event on March 15, NASA and its new space contractor, Axiom Space, released their first-generation Artemis uniforms for lunar astronauts.Dubbed “AxEMY Next Generation,” it’s the space suit that will protect the first astronauts to walk on land since 1972 – including the first woman and the first man of color to walk on the Moon, as soon as 2025, according to NASA’s plans.Axiom Space Chief Engineer Jim Stein demonstrates the flexibility of the display, Houston, March…