Fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain | Laura Graham

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 13, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The only thing that causes weight gain is fat consumption, a new study finds. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Aca ...

Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone

Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warmi ...

Braiding may be key to using time crystals in quantum computing | Lisa Zyga

Braiding time crystals. Credit: Bomantara and Gong. ©2018 American Physical Society June 20, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Braiding two different modes of time crystals can generate states necessary to perform ...

Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s | Bob Yirka

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 12, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- IQ scores have been slowly dropping over the past several decades, research shows. Bernt Bratsberg and Ole Rogeberg with the Ragnar Frisch C ...

On Occult Literature: A Diversion of Sorts | John Michael Greer

Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a curi ...

The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer

May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...

Scientists discover new magnetic element | Patrick Quarterman

This schematic illustrates how a tetragonal phase of Ru has been forced using ultra thin film growth methods. Credit: University of Minnesota, Quarterman et al, Nature Communications May 25, 2018 (Ph ...

New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows | Jennifer Chu

Schematic depiction of the E × B drift of carriers in a strong magnetic field. Electrons (labeled e−) and holes (labeled h+) drift in the same direction under the influence of crossed electric and ma ...

How a particle may stand still in rotating spacetime | Lisa Zyga

When a particle with a certain angular momentum is located at the critical distance rst, it remains at rest while the spacetime is rotating around it. The closer a particle is to this critical distan ...

Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app | AFP

May 20, 2018 (AFP) -- For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints bey ...

Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth | AFP

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon," professor Philippe Charl ...