Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Mateja Kovacic, University of Sheffield
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so far removed from what I do now. In factories, labs, and of course science fiction, imaginary robots keep fuelling our imagination about artificial humans and autonomous machines.
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- Written by: Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D.
Life’s intelligence, received through our inner guidance, is habitually interrupted or camouflaged by the mind’s chatter. A reflection of this same process is occurring worldwide, where we find ourselves in the midst of a highly magnified “technology takeover.” The universal use of technology, much like our addiction to thinking, has resulted in a constant current of information interrupting the “flow” of our life.
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- Written by: Patti Verbanas-Rutgers University
Researchers have created a mathematical model that shows how selfies and other photos taken at close range can distort the appearance of the subject’s nose.
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- Written by: Jonathan Chapman, Professor of Sustainable Design, Director of Design Research Initiatives, University of Brighton
We live in a world drowning in objects: households with a television in each room; kitchen cupboards stuffed with waffle makers, blenders and cappuccino whisks; drawers filled to bursting with pocket-sized devices powered by batteries – batteries which themselves take a thousand times more energy to make than they will ever provide.
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- Written by: Mary Hoff
With sufficient investment and strategic deployment, carbon dioxide removal and storage can play a key role in keeping global warming to a level we can live with.
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- Written by: David Salisbury-Vanderbilt University
When you shift your attention from one thing to another, your brain “blinks” between focusing on the two things, researchers report.
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- Written by: Laura Bailey-University Of Michigan
How young children use screen devices, rather than how much time they spend using the devices, may be the strongest predictor of emotional or social problems connected with screen addiction, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Jim Erickson-University Of Michigan
A new study recommends replacing all incandescent and halogen light bulbs in your home now with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or LEDs.
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- Written by: Laura Grant, Claremont McKenna College
Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time by setting our clocks an hour earlier on Sunday, Nov. 5. On Nov. 6, many of us will commute home in the dark.
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- Written by: Jenny Seifert-UC Santa Barbara
Every coastal country on Earth could meet its own domestic seafood needs through aquaculture using just a small fraction of ocean territory, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Jared Wadley-University of Michigan
When kids believe they can achieve success in math and reading, they are more likely to achieve high test scores in those subjects, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Mike Bara
The physics and the astrology say we are going to become even more polarized. We are here, all of us, in this time, to take sides. And by the way, it’s too late to shirk your responsibility. By even...
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- Written by: Kevin Fryling, Indiana University
A total eclipse of the sun will be visible across the continental United States on Monday. Your next chance to see such an event in the US won’t occur until April 8, 2024.
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- Written by: Leandro L. Minku; Nervo Xavier Verdezoto D and Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester
Flying warehouses, robot receptionists, smart toilets… do such innovations sound like science fiction or part of a possible reality?
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- Written by: Philip Comella
We now have reached the stage of evolution where we are ready to accept the world for what it must be: a product of our united imagination. This thought is the sky above, the stars overhead, and the invisible canvas covering the world. The material science worldview is a stage in...
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- Written by: University of Michigan
Researchers have developed a new kind of semiconductor alloy capable of capturing the near-infrared light located on the edge of the visible light spectrum.
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- Written by: Richard B. Rood, University of Michigan
Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every few years by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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- Written by: Mark Golden, Stanford University
Scientists have found a way to wirelessly transmit electricity to a nearby moving object.
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- Written by: Brett Israel, University of California, Berkeley
The mystery behind why your shoelaces constantly seem to untie themselves could finally have a solution.
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- Written by: Amy Adams, Stanford University
A battery made with urea, commonly found in fertilizers and mammal urine, could provide a low-cost way of storing energy produced through solar power or other forms of renewable energy for consumption during off hours.
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- Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University
The Volkswagen emissions scandal and past promotions of tobacco are two examples of “alternative facts” in science’s past, a researcher warns.
