Music activates neurons in more regions of the brain than almost anything else scientists know of and causes the release of neurochemicals in our brains.
Interviews
Jan 03, 2012
Human World
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Jean Auel talked to EarthSky about writing her bestselling novel, The Land of Painted Caves.
Jan 03, 2012
Human World
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Costa warns that the accelerating complexity of our world problems – global recession, climate change, and pandemics – is outpacing our brain’s ability to solve them.
Jan 03, 2012
Human World
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EarthSky spoke with a professor of Mayan archaeology about the supposed connection between an ancient Mayan calendar and 2012 doomsday prophecies.
Dec 31, 2011
Biodiversity
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Journalist Kieran Mulvaney says he fell under the spell of polar bears a decade ago, in Alaska on assignment. His new book is called The Great White Bear.
Dec 30, 2011
Human World
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Geographic information systems (GIS) will play a fundamental role in building and implementing the U.S. Smart Grid, and other smart grids worldwide.
Dec 29, 2011
Human World
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He says that the human eye evolved to see colors in part to glean what another person feels by detecting subtle color changes in their skin.
Dec 22, 2011
Earth
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It happens when cold winter air moves over a relatively warm body of water. What you get are small-scale but intense snowstorms.
Dec 20, 2011
Space
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Scientists have discovered evidence of underground lakes as big as the Great Lakes on Earth inside of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon might support life.
Dec 16, 2011
Health
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Researchers have deciphered a new chemical code that disease-carrying bacteria use to rally themselves. They call it Ax21.
