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Trying to grab time
If you had to explain what ‘time’ is, how would you do it? Well, you would start by saying that time is measured and that we have clocks to tell us what time it is. We have years, which are divided into months, weeks, days, minutes, seconds and so on. Perhaps you would mention that…
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Does music affect plants’ growing process?
As any gardener will tell you, even the smallest and what we think are the worst seeds can grow into tall and majestic plants with a little care and attention. Of course, it is important to adapt to the needs of a plant: watering on time, pruning and trimming carefully, repotting, etc. There are many…
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Hubble Trouble
What is wrong with the expansion of our universe? How will our universe end? How did it evolve? How much dark matter it contains, and how much dark energy? To answer these questions, we need to know about the Hubble constant. The Hubble constant isn’t something we encounter in our everyday lives, yet this little…
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Your weird body
Have you ever wondered why your body does some of the things it does? There’s a logical reason for most functions that we experience everyday. On the other hand, there are more than 100 vestigial anomalies in humans that are just a relic of evolution. They’re features that no longer serve a purpose such as…
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Beavers – Ecosystem Engineers
Beavers are cute creatures with the capacity to modify the ecosystem to meet their ecological needs. However, the relationship between humans and beavers is somewhat complicated. Why? They require relatively deep water for their daily activities, and they will build dams if water levels are low. Conflict between humans and beavers arises when the construction…
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Losing the healing touch of nature
“How are you doing?” “I don’t know. I’m just feeling a bit off lately” “I can relate. Everything is so grey and the days are so short. But it’s probably just the weather.” Is it really? That would mean that we can’t do anything about our mood when the weather is depressing. Most humans live…
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Plastic rain
As we already know, microplastic has been detected in our bodies. Lungs, brains, hearts, blood, placenta, feces. It’s in the soil where we grow our food and in the air we’re breathing. This concerns animals as well. The toxicity is still being studied but I think we can all agree that it’s most likely not…
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Building a lunar radio telescope
NASA engineers have taken on the challenge and formed a plan to build a lunar radio telescope. But what is it, why are they building it, and what are the challenges they’re encountering? Most likely you’ve seen a radio telescope before, whether in movies, shows, or in person. They look quite stunning, definitely the bigger…
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Halo effect
People form an opinion about an object or a person they encounter for the first time based on the characteristics of the object or person at first sight and by making use of their previous life experiences. This is called the halo effect, a cognitive bias. From the first encounter with a new product, a…
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Opioids and the global crisis
Drugs and medicine might sound like different things even though often it’s the same ingredients. Originally extracted from a poppy, opium has been a harmless medicine for decades. It’s been a help to many troubles, from the flu to a stomach ache. In the 19th century, people started to develop stronger forms from opium like…
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Psychological first aid after earthquake
There are many natural disasters that affect people’s lives and are a fact of life. People live by accepting the existence of these natural disasters and sometimes also ignoring them. We can understand the occurrence of many disasters, but we do not know exactly when an earthquake will happen, although some geoscientists predict it. An…
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