Scientists Scanned the Brains of Bullies and Found they are Physically Small.
People who exhibited anti-social behavior as teenagers but not as adults showed no such abnormalities. Good news for reformed bullies, bad news for lifers.
2020
American and British Sign Language are not mutually intelligible.
While English speakers can understand each other, deaf people from different English speaking countries are unable to
2019
EF Schumacher, Green economist.
Schumacher's 1973 book Small is Beautiful rewrote the rules by questioning whether the objectives of western economics were desirable
2020
Abnormal โHeatwaveโ to Enter the Arctic Region this Week,.
As the warm air moves into the North Pole, it pushes out the colder air, into North America.
Medical Waste.
Healthcare facilities like hospitals, dental clinics, nursing homes, physicianโs offices generate a large amount of medical waste daily
2020
Triton is gradually getting closer to the planet it orbits.
Scientists believe that when Triton eventually gets too close to Neptune, it will be torn apart by the planetโs gravity
2020
Lilian Wyles.
Wyles was a pioneer in the inclusion of women in the Met Police and for the more sensitive treatment of female victims of sexual assaults
2020
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
The circumference of the equator is 24,900 miles. If the average person lives until theyโre 80, they will walk about 110,000 miles in their lifetime.
2020
Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story has actually been to outer space.
Buzz Lightyear spent 15 months on board the International Space Station, and returned to Earth on the 11th September, 2009
2008
Phosphate (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. Roots employ adaptive mechanisms to forage for P in soil. Root hair elongation is particularly important since P is immobile. Here we report that auxin plays a critical role promoting root hair growth in Arabidopsis in response to low external P.
More Phosphate less root hairs
Astronauts can grow approximately 5 cm in height when in space.
The lack of gravity in space causes the discs between the vertebrae to expand a little.
2013
We have developed a mist system that resulted in abundant production of root hairs exuding sorgoleone and a mat system that significantly inhibited root hair development and consequently sorgoleone production.
