Researchers found that voters were more likely to cast their ballots for candidates with lower-pitched voices, and tended to rate them as more dominant and more trustworthy.
Do you want to live to 120, only to feel like you’re 120? In the human quest for longevity — if not immortality — it’s a question that often gets overlooked. But it’s a core issue for a team of scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, whose work is reshaping the course of geriatric…
The average mammalian species lifespan is a million years. But Homo sapiens only evolved about 100 thousand years ago. So we’ve got a long road ahead of us. The chart below explores where we’ve been, and where we might be headed. Though some futurists say the future is accelerating, there is plenty of evidence that…
BP PLC has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges and pay $4.5 billion in penalties, including $1.26 billion in criminal fines, stemming from the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers in 2010 and unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The energy company will plead guilty to 11 felony counts of…
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn’t seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than 1% of our planet’s mass is locked up in water, and even that may have been delivered by comets and asteroids after…
Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water. That’s one of a range of potential innovations for the material created in a single step….
Kids love smartphones and tablets, and that makes the devices great tools for learning math and science. Apps for mobile devices can help make even the most abstract concepts—like algebra or physics—engaging. And smartphones and tablets can be carried out into nature to help students understand what they’re seeing. Star Walk, for example, identifies more…