Science

Here are 5 strategies for remembering everything you learn backed by science
12:03 2018-05-16

People who are good at learning don’t just have a good genes and a keen interest, they have mastered the ability to understand how learning works. Most of the education systems around the world don’t teach children how to learn: they simply teach them how to rote learn and then once the test is finished, …

NASA to send helicopter to Mars
17:18 2018-05-14

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to send a helicopter to Mars in July 2020 to get a bird’s-eye-view of the Red Planet, the agency said Friday. According to NASA, the upcoming Mars 2020 rover, a small autonomous chopper, will fly through Martian air to see if it can levitate on …

How neuroscience is unlocking the mysteries of the teenage brain
17:08 2018-05-08

How would you describe an average teenager? For most people, the following characteristics might come to mind: moody, impulsive, risk taking, likely to succumb to peer pressure. While it’s clear that adolescence is a period of life that is rife with stereotypes, there is some truth to the clichés. Many neuroscience studies have now established …

NASA successfully tests ‘Kilopower’ nuclear reactor that will provide power for the first people on Mars
08:15 2018-05-06

The reactor, called the Kilopower Reactor was tested at the NNSA’s Nevada National Security Site from November to March. NASA has successfully tested a new nuclear reactor power system that could one day provide power to people living on Mars . The reactor, called the Kilopower Reactor was tested at the NNSA’s Nevada National Security …

Scientists uncover eight million-year-old elephant-like fossil in Macedonia that ‘weighed 10 tons and lived for 50 years’
22:08 2018-05-04

Palaeontologists from Bulgaria and Macedonia are excavating the fossilised remains of a prehistoric elephant-like creature believed to pre-date the mammoth, after its bones were discovered accidentally by a man working in a field. Scientists at the Natural Science Museum of Macedonia and the Natural History Museum of Sofia, Bulgaria said they began excavating the skeleton …