BIG Problems – Page 138

Do Aliens Go Invisible By ‘Going Green’?
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
The Fermi Paradox asks the simple question “where are they?” Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so...
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Weaponizing Neuroscience
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A group of forward-thinking military scientists want to plug soldiers’ weapons directly into their brains, and this time DARPA...
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Whales Stressed Out By Ocean Noise
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
Ships’ propellers emit sound in the same frequency range that some whales use for communicating, and previous studies have...
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Jurassic Cricket: Mating Song Recreated 165 Million Years Later
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A cricket song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again. To reconstruct the sound, paleontologists compared...
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Patch of Seagrass is World’s Oldest Living Organism
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth. Carlos Duarte of...
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How the Fall of Communism Changed Mathematics in the U.S.
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those...
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The Psychology of Political Flip-Flops
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
Politicians change their minds like everyone else. And accusations of flip-flopping are often thought to be a boon for...
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What’s a Science Teacher to Do?
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
It used to be sex ed that got science teachers into challenging situations once in awhile. Evolution, too, of...
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Social Media More Addictive than Cigarettes and Alcohol
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to...
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Thinking About Mortality Changes How We Act
By the Editor on February 6, 2012
Scientists have been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate existential systems, each with its...
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