If you don't get enough of genetics and evolution you may be interested in this video. Kallie Moore, Co-host and Content Consultant for PBS's streaming series, Eons, gives a behind-the-scenes look at her work as a science communicator on Eons, as well as her work as Collections Manager for the University of Montana Paleontology Center, so you better listen her.

The evolution has been proved and we can see it often in bacterias and their reaction in time to the antibiotics we are using for treating the diseases they are starting in us, but old time evolution is harder to be noticed. The reseaech did found fossils belonging to the animals and hominids that lived millions of years ago but the details are very few.

Discovering the mysteries of the human brain can be a hard job, with or without watching the BBC Earth Science video, and the experiment in the video may help you understand shows how the brain can interpret and misinterpret what we all call pain.

Let's thing a little about statistics: taking one lottery ticket you have chances to win the big lottery price with only one variant, and from time to time that is happening when the winner pick the winning numbers. There are small chances but winning is happening. One have always the same chances to win the all lottery big prices for an entire years but that has not happened yet because the chances for that are even smaller.

Downloading your thoughs into a computer and copying who you are into another person or an artificial device is still science fiction but in just a few years or another decades it can become reality.

Long answer short, we don't know it all. Some may say we don't know so much. But if you are 40 years old or over 40 years old you may have noticed how fast is changing the technology around us. Not all the changes are real improvements but some humana have focused in the last 20 years with intensity on the planet with new technologies and capabilities, and as species we have accumulated a mass of data that is now revealing a complex and ever-changing living planet.

As Earth’s climate changes and it's becoming hotter and hotter because of human activities NASA team is seeing shifts in the intensity of events such as record-breaking heat waves, severe floods, prolonged droughts, devastating wildfires, and stronger hurricanes.

  Biological evolution in humans may has slowed but we continue to evolve - we can still adapt to our environment but, at least in part, we started to control it. The biologist Sean B. Carroll is asking if Artificial Intelligence, culture wars and modern tech can explain why it's slowing?

This early morning I am taking a little break from programming and watching some dcumentary covers the current theories about the early history of our planet and the most ancient life on it during the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic periods (from 4.6 billion years ago until 500 million years ago).

You don't need to solve the equation right now but you can keep it on mind and try to solve it later, when you have the time and the necessary knowledge for that.

 The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course: in about 3 billion years from now the two galaxies will collide. Then over a span of 1 billion years or so after a very complex gravitational dance, they will merge to form an giant elliptical galaxy. That's why the collision period is aproximated to a period from 3 to 5 billion years from now.

Raining animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky - that happens no matter the sky is clear (no strong winds, tornados or waterspouts) or it was raining.

Facts about the olive tree

The olive tree (Olea europaea; Heb. zayith, Gk, elaia) is an evergreen tree usually about 5 meters (about 16 ft) high when pruned, but it can get much taller when unpruned.

Emeralds are the green gem variety of the mineral beryl (Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆) and they are identical to other types of beryl except for their chromium and (sometimes) vanadium content: it is the chromium that gives emeralds their bright green color. The toughness (resistance to breaking) of emeralds is classified as generally poor: the beryl has a hardness of 7,5 - 8 on 10 poin Mohs scale of mineral hardnes.

The word diamond comes from the ancient Greek word adamas and it means unbreakable. In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon - the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.

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It's the first video I came across that explains in details how the differential gears works... It's quite simple (as the physics part) and you can find it in many devices you may be using each day.

 

In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds (read here how they did it).

At least in theory, launching Helen 2 rocket ARCA wants to achieve two objectives:

• launching the first Romanian space rocket in a suborbital flight
• achieving the first flight in Google Lunar X Prize

Helen 2 system overview

Helen 2 is a suborbital system consisting of a helium balloon with 0 pressure, that lifts a two stage rocket vehicle and payload European Lunar Lander (ELL). The payload is a pressurized capsule that carries avionics, such as accelerometers, cameras, satellite tracking systems, GPS, sensors, telemetry equipment, etc.