Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned. Evidence suggests that the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade. Opinion is divided as to whether the trend is long-term, but some researchers believe that humans have already reached intellectual peak. An IQ
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The date of Earth’s potential destruction has been set at 16 March 2880, when an asteroid hurtling through space has a possibility of striking our planet, Dailymail reports. Researchers studying the rock found that its body rotates so quickly that it should break apart, but somehow remains intact on its Earth-bound trajectory. They believe it
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the Earth and everything on it are rotating. But it’s a good thing that our planet keeps spinning, because if it suddenly stopped it would unleash a torrent of catastrophes. Just listen to what Michael Stevens has to say in this new installment of his Vsauce YouTube series. “First
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1. Core is the central part of the sun. Due to high temperature and pressure in the core, it produces hydrogen gas to fuse helium. This process produces a large amount of energy from sun which is almost equivalent to a 100 billion nuclear bombs. 2. Moon has no weather, no wind and no
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A spate of retail therapy is said to be good for boosting your mood, but it turns out spending money doesn’t always buy happiness – especially if you’re materialistic. Research has found some shoppers, whether they buy material items or life experiences such as tickets to the theatre or holidays, are no happier following
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Hundreds of thousands of video gamers are right now plugged into one computer game. But it’s not the latest Call of Duty or Fifa – it’s a science based game called EyeWire in which users map the neurons of a brain. And information collected from the gamers using the crowdsourcing programme has been used to
While teachers may be educating the future leaders of the world and moulding young minds, they often don’t get the respect they deserve for doing a hard, time-consuming and sometimes frustrating job. Education may not be a glamorous profession in the strictest sense, but it does garner more respect — and often more benefits —
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Coming up with ideas could be as easy as a walk in the park. We think more creatively when taking a stroll than when sitting, according to a study. Surprisingly, it is not being outside that matters, it is the exercise itself. Researcher Marily Oppezzo said: ‘Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when
(By Mayowa Adeyemi) The word “facetiously” contains all 5 vowels alphabetically. “Lollipop” is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand. If you spell out every number from 0 to 999, you will find every vowel except for “a” you have to get to one thousand before getting an “a”. “Go”
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The brain is responsible for a wide range of behaviors and experiences throughout adolescence – both positive and negative. During the teen years, structural and functional changes in the brain may contribute to many negative characteristics such as: difficulty planning organizing and setting priorities inability to foresee consequences difficulty postponing gratification poor impulse control heightened
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