Women more likely to avoid harming even a single person, even if it results in thousands of deaths, research finds Although females rationally evaluate the outcomes of actions the same as males, females make different decisions about their actions, according to recent research. Females are more strongly influenced by emotional aversion to causing immediate harm … Read more
Researchers at Tokyo University have added a new sense to the brains of rats. The procedure was relatively simple and the rats integrated the new sense — a geomagnetic compass — quickly. Blind rats given the new sense were soon able to navigate laboratory mazes almost as well as sighted rats. Because of the ease … Read more
Usually, sound reflects off of the objects it encounters, bouncing some sound waves back in the direction from which they came — this phenomenon is familiar in the application of sonar. No technology has yet been developed that can provide sonar invisibility to any object, but a team of Singaporean researchers recently proposed a novel material surface that could do … Read more
“You’ve used keywords to search for images, but have you used color? With Splash, you can now browse a subset of the 500px Marketplace by getting creative with color,” is the line offering the app 500px’s online service. Users simply go to the webpage, select a color and spraypaint it or draw it onto a … Read more
The Ebola virus, which has taken the lives of over 4,000 people in Liberia over the past year, could be wiped out completely by the beginning of summer. It is not a foregone conclusion, but it is a realistic possibility, according to the researchers responsible for a new forecast based on new highly inclusive models. “I think the … Read more
BRIEF – Novodevichy Convent, a large Moscow monastery situated around 5 km from the Kremlin, was the site of a large fire Sunday night. The building has been under repair, according to Bulletin Echo, and the fire may have begun with one of the scaffolding towers. The fire began at after 10:30 p.m. Moscow time. … Read more
RUMBEK, South Sudan — Lakes State Minister of Agriculture Philip Kot Job has received 31,000 liters of fuel for tractor cultivation for 2015. “I have informed the farmers of Lakes State that we have received our fuel, which had been in Juba for over a year,” the minister said. “We have received now 31,000 liters and we are trying to put this … Read more
According to recent work conducted by a joint team of researchers from James Cook University, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, the University of Heidelberg, and the National Institutes of Health, the body’s cells not only learn from the infections they encounter, becoming better able to deal with various infections throughout life, … Read more
JUBA, South Sudan — As motorbike riders protest the regulation of wearing helmets in Chad, ravaging the capital city N’djamena, and businessmen triple the price for helmets with strong resistance from the motorbike riders, it’s a different story in Juba south Sudan From dusty roads to unshaded stages, rough roads to tarmac roads, hot weather … Read more
Red prince of my heart That quenches my thirst for the history of a thousand years, In your presence sprouts the life force of knowledge In the garden of my consciousness. The eternal flame of the butter lamp that flickers in my eyes Is stoked by my sweat and blood. The land of snows has … Read more
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Dig my grave and raise my barrow By the Dnieper-side In Ukraina, my own land, A fair land and wide. I will lie and watch the cornfields, Listen through the years To the river voices roaring, Roaring in my ears. When I hear the call Of the racing flood, Loud with hated blood, I will … Read more