An influential group of geologists, ecologists, and biologists argue that humans have so changed the planet that it is entering another phase of geological time, called the Anthropocene, “the Age of Man.”
Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators are turning to games to treat and teach. Games designed to tackle tough scientific problems are leading to breakthroughs in RNA structure, protein folding, genetic sequence alignment, and more. Author Metanexus Editors
Yoga has positive effects on mild depression and sleep complaints, even in the absence of drug treatments, and improves symptoms associated with schizophrenia and ADHD in patients on medication, according to a systematic review of the exercise on major clinical psychiatric disorders. Published in the open-access journal, Frontiers in Psychiatry, the review of more than…
The problems engineers face are increasing in complexity at an exponential pace, and as one plenary speaker at the recent ASEE conference put it, it’s essential to be able to add continuously to your skill set in order to be a practicing engineer. All the good grades in the world won’t matter if you cannot…
Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of materials science and engineering researchers has discovered a new nanometer-scale atomic structure in solid metallic materials known as metallic glasses. Published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the findings fill a gap in researchers’ understanding of this atomic structure. This…
Despite lengthy discussions of tribal social organization as well as “archaic” societies like ancient Egypt, Religion in Human Evolution, the magnum opus that the sociologist Robert N. Bellah has just published, is primarily concerned with what, following the philosopher Karl Jaspers, can be called religion’s “axial age.” Author Metanexus Editors
13.7 billion years of evolution in 85 seconds.