Hand gestures while speaking influence how words are heard by others | Bob Yirka

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Jan. 28, 2021 (Phys.org) -- A team of researchers in The Netherlands has found that hand gestures used by people when speaking can influence how their words are bei ...

Analysis Reveals Predictable Patterns In Armed Conflicts | Santa Fe Institute

Engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770. Credit: Paul Revere Jan. 8, 2020 (Phys.org) -- New work by SFI's Collective Computation Group (C4) finds that human conflict exhibits remarkable regularity des ...

Rare Quadruple-Helix DNA Found In Living Human Cells With Glowing Probes | Hayley Dunning

Quadruple-helix DNA. Credit: Imperial College London Jan. 8, 2021 (Phys.org) -- New probes allow scientists to see four-stranded DNA interacting with molecules inside living human cells, unraveling i ...

World's Fastest Optical Neuromorphic Processor | Swinburne University of Technology

Dr Xingyuan (Mike) Xu with the integrated optical microcomb chip, which forms the core part of the optical neuromorphic processor. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology Jan. 7, 2021 (TechXplore) ...

Multiparty entanglement: When everything is connected | University of Amsterdam

In a multiparty entangled quantum world, everything can be connected. Credit: TheDigitalArtist Dec. 22, 2020 (Phys.org) -- Entanglement is a ubiquitous concept in modern physics research: it occurs i ...

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble — Mickey Z.

Still image from the 1960 film version of West Side Story (credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 14, 2020 Part of growing up as a heavily conditioned, lower-middle-class male in New Y ...

Polarization increases with economic decline, becoming cripplingly contagious | Princeton University

CC0 Public Domain Dec. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these "anti-elite" movements intensifies, many are scrambli ...

A Merry December to All! — Mickey Z.

Screenshot from a YouTube video entitled, “War On Christmas: Hannity and Athiest (sic) Debate” Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 8, 2020 Let me be the first to wish Sean Hannity an early Happy Wi ...

U.S. Holiday Travel Surges as U.S. COVID-19 Cases Soar Past 12 Million

Credit: Democracy Now Nov. 23, 2020 (Democracy Now) -- A surge in holiday travel already has started ahead of Thanksgiving, despite warnings from public health experts -- including the Centers for Di ...

Frequent, rapid testing could cripple COVID within weeks | Lisa Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder

CC0 Public DomainNov. 20, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid-turnaround COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks -- even if ...

Like fire and ice: Why societies are increasingly fragmenting | Complexity Science Hub Vienna

People like to create social triangles with others. Red lines represent friendly and cooperative relations between individuals, blue lines are negative or hostile links. We usually cope better with b ...