Several years ago, Chris Long, an IT specialist at the Sheriff’s Office in Nevada (USA), received a bone marrow transplant as a leukaemia treatment. He received the donation from an unknown man from the other continent, Germany. The disease Chris suffered from was a type of cancer, and the new bone marrow of the donor …
The so-called causality dilemma – which came first, the chicken or the egg – is based on the fact that we cannot be certain what the cause is and what the effect is. A chicken is required to lay the egg, which also means that the egg which hatched the chicken had already existed. Logically, …
(The anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin) ’For anyone studying the symbols of our time,’ writes English biologist and thinker Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), ’the emergence of the philosophy of evolution, regarding its position at the throne of human thought, whereupon it came from the limbo of the despised, and as many hoped forgotten things, …
The photo shows a Macaque monkey yawning. Look once again. He is tired and so sleepy that his eyelids are drooping; he is gently putting his hand on his mouth and sighing deeply, exhaling loudly with pleasure. What are you doing now? Can it be that you have yawned? Believe it or not, scientists do …
By Marija Djuric/Photo:Pixabay Do you know the plant in the picture? There is a great chance that you have already consumed it today, perhaps even several times. Yesterday, too It’s coffee. According to The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop, coffee was first consumed by the members of the …
Ten wolves, ten pet dogs and ten shelter dogs of various types and breeds were put to a test. They were supposed to open a box which contained a treat for them, a task that required some effort. The task, designed by Monique Udell, a professor at Oregon State University, was successfully solved by eight …
Watching a flock of birds flying high over a plain, you may wonder what their experience and view of the areas they fly over is like. Scientists often wondered as much, until they discovered that the birds sleep while flying. This by all means explains how it is possible for birds to fly constantly for …