In our daily life we are constantly faced with decision making. Recent scientific studies reveal some tricks to ensure that we choose the best option. For example, sleeping before making an important decision, or deciding with a full bladder.
What is the potential of social networks like Twitter and Facebook in coordinating people? According to an international study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in which scientists from the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) participate, mobilization through social networks in natural disasters, political campaigns, health emergencies, etc. it is fast but has certain limits. And although they can be a very useful tool when coordinating people in critical situations, they have found that the risk of failure of such a strategy is high.
In its 15th edition, the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Program “For Women in Science” has selected five pioneering researchers who have changed the way of thinking in areas of Physical Sciences and who "have provided the world with a better understanding of the functioning of nature ”, explained Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, during the ceremony held last week in Paris.
Although intuitively it would be expected that in the future the number of inhabitants of our planet would continue to grow, according to the latest model, elaborated by researchers from the Autonomous University of Madrid, the population of our planet will stabilize in the middle of this century, around of 2050.
Did you know that the first Apple logo was developed by Ron Wayne, one of the founders of the company, and was a drawing made with nib or India ink in which Sir Isaac Newton was seen leaning against an apple tree?
According to research by scientists at Oxford and Lund Universities, the fact that many males provide paternal care to their offspring even when they are not of the same blood could have an evolutionary explanation. The work indicates that instead of doing it out of "confusion", the males are much more tolerant and cunning than was supposed and they decide their care based on how likely it is that a female will put the horns on them.
The universal Turing machine, an imaginary contraption devised in 1936 capable of performing any mathematical operation and the foundation of all modern computers, has been voted the best British invention of the century in a popular vote launched by several British museums, the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, the British Association for Science and the Royal Society.
Although a century ago scientists thought that the dinosaurs of the Tyrannosaurus rex species walked upright, they discarded the hypothesis several decades ago when they found that their posture was more like that of a bird, with its tail raised and its head forward in front of its two muscular hind legs. However, an outdated image of this upright Jurassic dinosaur remains in the popular imagination, as shown by a study carried out by paleontologists from Cornell University in New York (USA) echoed by the Associated Press.
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.
