This is a chip-scale glass microspherical shell sensor array blown on a silicon substrate. Insert is a near-perfect spherical shell.
Credit: Tadigadapa Lab/Penn State
In London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a whisper can be heard far across the circular whispering gallery as...
Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent.
In a series of experiments, with more than 3,000 participants, the team demonstrated that video game concepts do not...
The number of connections reaches a maximum at the age of 25 for both genders.
Unnamed call records, gender and age information of 3 million mobile phone users from a European country were used to provide a probabilistic interpretation about...
Social scientists have long known that women working in numerically male-dominated occupations like physics and firefighting report experiencing workplace stress, but men who work in numerically female-dominated occupations like nursing and child care do not.
But why? Is it something...
Strong ozone depletion in the cold polar vortex above the Arctic on 2 April 2011. Many of the processes that cause ozone depletion in the polar stratosphere strongly depend on temperature. This explains why climate change also affects the...
Religious expression has a central role in societies around the world, but exactly what role it plays isn't always clear. Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow Eleanor Power has an answer: whether it's walking across hot coals or simply...
Using a simple set of hand signals can improve the experience of online meetings, make groups feel closer to each other and that they are learning and communicating better, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
The research team trained...
The STEM enrichment activities have been running to encourage more children to develop science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills.
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Enrichment activities to encourage pupils to study science and technology subjects have made no difference to...
Multi-disciplinary researchers at The University of Manchester have helped develop a powerful physics-based tool to map the pace of language development and human innovation over thousands of years -- even stretching into pre-history before records were kept.
Tobias Galla, a...
A new psychological study published by University of Otago researchers has addressed centuries-old questions about how and why supernatural beings are worshiped.
The "Mickey Mouse problem" commonly referenced in religious psychology refers to the difficulty in predicting which supernatural beings...
Languages have an intriguing paradox. Languages with lots of speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar. Yet the opposite is also true: Languages with fewer speakers have fewer words but complex grammars.
Why does...
