Logical Science

When you hungrily and hopefully watch a cake rise through the window of the oven, it’s doing so because of carbon dioxide bubbles. This gas is released from a reaction between an acid and an alkali in the baking powder you added to the recipe. Baking powder consists of an acid component, such as cream of tartar (a white, acidic powder), an alkali (or base) like bicarbonate of soda (also known as baking soda), and a moisture absorber like cornstarch. When the cream of tartar and baking s more here http://logicalscience.com/2017/05/how-does-baking-powder-works/

Question: Personally I wouldn’t like to feel centrifuged when I’m kissing someone, but that’s poetry (kind of). Let’s answer the question: why do we close our eyes when kissing? Answer: Faith Hill’s take on a kiss: It’s centrifugal motion  It’s perpetual bliss  It’s that pivotal moment It’s unthinkable  This kiss, this kiss Scientists have been trying to figure this out. Yau Che Ming, a professor at the National Education Institute in Singapore, has a few theories: one is that clo more here http://logicalscience.com/2017/07/why-do-we-close-our-eyes-when-kissing/

Our planet is home for 7.6 billion as of December 31st, 2017. I vividly remember Monday October 31, 2011 which saw the birth of the 7 billionth person somewhere in the world. Who this person is will remain a mystery (the date is an estimate), but we can be certain of the growing demands that humans increasingly make from our planet. Some people say that the rate of growth is decreasing: this is like slightly lifting your foot off the gas pedal (en-gb: accelerator), but continuing to a more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/02/growing-human-population-fun-facts/

Q: Why leaves go red and fall off trees A: Leaves are the lungs and food factories of a plant, needing carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to make oxygen and glucose. As days become shorter and colder, indicating less sunlight and water in the coming months, trees begin to break down the chlorophyll in their leaves and distribute the nutrients from the leaves to the trunk and roots, where they can be used to help the tree last through the winter. The loss of chlorophyll unmasks the yellow more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/02/why-leaves-go-red-and-fall-off-trees/

Some skeptics will say: "The scientific consensus was wrong about flat earth and sun revolving around the planet, so how can we trust them now?" The problem with this argument is that the modern scientific method began with the methods put forth by Karl Popper in the 1930's. Before that period of time, peer review and empirical falsifiability simply weren't widespread. There was no standardized way to separate the tabloids from the real science. To give you an idea how new peer review is, even more here http://logicalscience.com/2012/02/concensus-on-flat-earth-theory/

It all started with this exchange, when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton the hashtag #deletefacebook . "What's Facebook?" Musk Replied. This tweet got a lot of traction and a user tweeted "Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?" to Tesla Inc chief Musk. He responded immediately saying "I didn’t realize there was one. Will do." (http://bit.ly/2pDcu3l) Rocket company SpaceX's verified Facebook page disappeared on Friday, minutes after its founder and Silicon Valley billionaire more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/elon-musk-deleted-spacex-facebook-page-thats-why-we-love-elon-musk/

In the name of anti-terrorism, governments worldwide are turning to new machines. There is a new type of airport security scanner, which has already been accused of causing cancer and invading your privacy. Thankfully, it doesn’t require us to sit in a grey tub on a conveyor belt. I took four round-trip flights last year: if you do the same next year, what effects might the radiation from scanners and flying have on your health? A new type of scanner shines X-rays on to you, and measures more here http://logicalscience.com/2017/07/dangers-of-x-ray-scanning-at-the-airport/

There are several articles published in the internet like this one. BEWARE OF THE BLACKBERRY SQUINT was a Report seen on marieclaire.co.uk. Even reputed journals carry such articles. What they said: A cosmetic surgeon says that women who overuse technology, by squinting at their smartphones, are developing premature wrinkles. “The phenomenon,” he declares, “can be seen on anyone who has, and regularly checks, a Blackberry or iPhone.” This “recent rise” of perplexed-looking women can be solve more here http://logicalscience.com/2015/01/will-iphone-or-blackberry-give-you-wrinkles/

pimchawee Jean Twenge, San Diego State University Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression – surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent. In a new paper published in Clinical Psychological Sc more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-5-years-the-culprit-is-smartphone/

When Stephen Hawking was 21, he was diagnosed with a rare motor neuron disease. A terminal form of ALS, and doctors predicted that he would live for only a couple of more years. 53 years later, and after a lost of contribution to the field of science and cosmology, he passed away  this week. He was a professor at the University of Cambridge, and also the author of the best seller "A Brief History of Time". amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "00790-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/top-10-stephen-hawking-quotes/

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) - A pregnant woman who becomes ill from the Zika virus faces a 7 percent chance that her child will be born with birth defects, and that risk jumps to nearly 13 percent if she becomes ill during the first trimester, a new study conducted in French territories in the Americas has concluded. The finding "emphasizes the serious global health threat to pregnant women and their infants posed by congenital (Zika virus) infection," said Dr. Margaret Honein of the more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/birth-defect-rate-pegged-at-7-pct-for-babies-born-to-zika-infected-women/

By Timothy Gardner and Alister Doyle WASHINGTON/OSLO, March 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels. But there is a disconnect between what Trump says at home and what his government does abroad. While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/weathering-trumps-skepticism-us-officials-still-fighting-global-warming/

(Agnia Grigas is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. The opinions expressed here are her own.) By Agnia Grigas March 14 (Reuters) - As another energy conflict is erupting between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow seeks to start construction of the second branch of the Nord Stream pipeline to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany. While the European Union countries remain divided, the United States needs to maintain its consistent and principled position to reduce Europe’s o more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/how-to-derail-russias-energy-war/

In a previous article, we saw why star fish is so special. Going one step ahead, in this article we are going to see why some scientists consider Octopuses as aliens. According to a particular group of scientists, the octopus, might actually be aliens and not of this world. After extensive genome research, they have mapped out the genetic code of the octopus. Eventually they found it to be so strange that they concluded that it may be extraterrestrial. This study is the first genome more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/are-octopuses-really-aliens-scientists-conclude-after-research/

Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died on Wednesday, March 14, after suffering from complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He was 76. His family's spokesperson issued an official statement, which said: 'It is with great sadness we announce the death of Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA at the age of 76. Professor Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of the morning. His f more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/renowned-british-physicist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-76/

Image Credit: Peter Sobolev via shutterstock.com A smartphone touchscreen is an impressive piece of technology. It displays information and responds to a user’s touch. But as many people know, it’s easy to break key elements of the transparent, electrically conductive layers that make up even the sturdiest rigid touchscreen. If flexible smartphones, e-paper and a new generation of smart watches are to succeed, they can’t use existing touchscreen technology. We’ll need to invent something more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/making-flexible-electronics-with-nanowire-networks/

Question: Flying has evolved multiple times (bats and birds and insects, at least), but among the insects, were there multiple different achievements of flight or is there a suspected common flying insect from which all current varieties of insect flight have sprung? Answer: This is a tricky one to answer, and currently there’s no agreement on the answer. Nevertheless, let’s have a go at answering it by first of all looking at the bat and bird example cited in the question. It might seem rat more here http://logicalscience.com/2017/08/did-flying-insects-evolve-from-a-common-ancestor/

The results of a recent study on the causes of autism may have opened a path to a possible treatment for the disease. This line of research began a decade ago when a group of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, conducted a pioneering study on the relationship between certain irregularities in the immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. Since then, the postmortem analysis of brains, and studies of people living with autism and more here http://logicalscience.com/2017/10/certain-immune-irregularities-contribute-to-autism/

Increased energy efficiency and reduced air pollution are the main benefits of magnetic refrigeration based on solid materials against conventional operating through understanding and expansion of gas in cycles. This motivated scientists Potosi Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IPICYT) metal alloys to generate highly efficient and low cost for the system saving up to one third of energy consumption. The technology is based on the magneto caloric effect with intensity of more here http://logicalscience.com/2015/06/scientists-create-new-cooling-technology/

The effect of global warming on rain in general is well known: As carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, their presence increases the temperature, which in turn leads to increase in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. When developing storm systems, the higher humidity promotes greater precipitation, so that higher temperatures contributes to the rain becoming more extreme. For years, the scientific community has been developing models and simulations of more here http://logicalscience.com/2014/01/alteration-of-rain-in-tropical-regions-by-global-warming/

The mass extinction that hit Earth late Permian Period, 250 million years ago, before the reign of the dinosaurs, wiped out most of the world’s life forms. By some estimates, about 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land species perished. Typically, an extinction of such magnitude is followed by a period of scarcity of biodiversity during which no new species, and that usually takes tens of thousands of years. In this case, the lack of biodiversity phase, during the first s more here http://logicalscience.com/2014/08/for-millions-of-years-there-was-a-dead-zone-in-the-tropics/

Ajit Pai, President Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is a longtime foe of net neutrality. He has proposed completely repealing the Obama administration’s 2015 Open Internet Order, a decision the commission will likely vote to confirm on Dec. 14. But what is net neutrality, this policy Pai has spent years criticizing? 1. Public interest versus private profit The basic conflict is a result of the history of the internet, and the telecommunications industry more gene more here http://logicalscience.com/2018/03/net-neutrality-the-10-things-that-you-need-to-know/

It is known fairly accurately how quickly global sea level can increase, but it is much more difficult to know all the different sources that contribute to this increase. Using data collected by the GRACE satellite pair (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), the authors of a new analysis have estimated more precisely than in previous studies of mass loss of the ice sheet of Antarctica. This improved accuracy has been achieved thanks to more accurately mapped to the ice, and to discern more here http://logicalscience.com/2014/01/the-antarctic-ice-contribution-to-sea-level-rise-may-be-less-than-thought/

The largest volcanic eruption of the last million years on Earth occurred 74,000 years ago in Indonesia. A new study links the eruption with global climate change in the time and its effect on early human populations. The Toba volcano is located on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, near the equator. The colossal eruption that happened 74,000 years ago has left a crater 50 kilometers in diameter. The eruption ejected 2500 cubic kilometers of lava, an amount equivalent to twice the size of more here http://logicalscience.com/2015/01/climatic-effects-that-resulted-in-the-largest-volcanic-eruption-of-the-last-million-years/

A group of researchers has found evidence that the extinction of the mammoth of the tundra (Shaggy) could be due to climate change between the various stages of glaciation, according to research released today. The study, published in the journal “Proceedings of the Royal Society B” has been carried out by a group of scientists from the Natural History Museum of Sweden and contradicts some current theories that blame the disappearance of the woolly mammoth to a massive hunting by humans. Rese more here http://logicalscience.com/2016/09/climate-change-is-the-reason-for-extinction-of-mammoth/

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