Facebook users do not go to the social network looking for current news, but they do it mainly to find out what their friends and acquaintances are doing. And if they read the news they do so "by chance", according to a study carried out by the Pew Research Center among 5,173 people to investigate the habits of this community.
An experiment carried out by Harvard University (USA) reveals that children between the ages of 4 and 5 trust the information given to them by a physically attractive person more than they are told by an individual whom they consider ugly. .
Genetics are essential in nature, however, although they share the same DNA, two twins are not exactly the same. Research that has just been published in the journal Science appears to have solved the mystery. Some regions of DNA that do not code for proteins but that decrease or increase the expression of genes are responsible for some features, such as the shape of the face.
The universe is still full of mysteries for science. A group of researchers has managed to measure the age of the galaxy z8_GND_5296 thanks to the spectrograph installed in the Keck telescope, ten meters in diameter and located in the middle of the Pacific, in Hawaii. Exactly the galaxy is about 13,000 million years old, that is, it formed when the universe was only five percent of its current age.
The abominable snowman, that giant, hairy and mysterious being that has supposedly frightened the Himalayan people for years, is nothing more than a cross between different types of bears. This has been certified by a genetic analysis carried out at the University of Oxford on two remains of hair attributed to this mysterious creature.
Researchers at the University of Rochester (USA) have carried out a study that demonstrates the restorative nature of sleep and that could explain why we need to sleep, according to the journal Science in its latest edition.
A 1.8 million-year-old skull found at the rich Dmanisi site in Georgia has shaken the world of paleontology. According to paleoanthropologists at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), these remains suggest that the first members of the genus Homo that lived at the same time in Asia and Africa (Homo habilis and Homo erectus) actually belonged to the same species.
An American paleontologist has found a fossilized mosquito in whose stomach there were still traces of blood from its latest victim. The blood could be around 46 million years old and, according to experts, it would belong to a bird.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
