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What’s in a name? Shakespeare famously asked this in his classic tale of Romeo and Juliet. Well, it turns out that there’s actually a lot. New research suggests that a person’s first name changes how other people judge their personality, age, and competency. Researchers asked 500 college students to rate the 400 most popular names from […]
A new study found that people who study music or a foreign language are also training their brains to become more efficient. Entitled “Different neural activities support auditory working memory in musicians and bilinguals,” the research was published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. To conduct the study, researchers looked at the […]
A new paper published in the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology journal resurrects the panspermia theory, which suggests that life was brought to Earth from outer space by life-bearing comets. The paper, which was written by 33 authors from reputable universities and research institutes, further suggests that the complex and intelligent Cephalopods (cuttlefish, squids, and […]
In order to define the combined feeling of ‘hunger’ and ‘anger’ a new term was recently coined — hanger. Though it was coined without any scientific basis at that time, research says that it is actually a genuine emotion. Imagine feeling as hungry as Bart Simpson… …but as angry as The Hulk: No one’s definitely […]
Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have recently discovered that plants can “complain” to nearby plants when their neighborhood becomes too crowded, which makes the other plants alter their growth patterns. Survival strategies in the face of toughening competition is relatively varied for animals: they can either fight and defend their territory or pack […]
Most people roll their eyes when someone tells them something ludicrous or when they find a person low-key annoying and can’t stand a thing he/she is saying. The ocular gesture, according to psychologists, has been an act of dominance and a less overt way of acting out aggression particularly among women. But evolutionary psychologists would […]
*Dua Lipa’s “New Rules” plays in the background*