What Is Pi, and How Did It Originate? | Scientific American
WEBMay 17, 1999 · The Sciences. Succinctly, pi—which is written as the Greek letter for p, or π—is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Regardless of the circle's size ...
Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why | Scientific American
WEBMar 27, 2020 · Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why. Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and ...
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Strange but True: Earth Is Not Round | Scientific American
WEBApr 12, 2007 · Isaac Newton first proposed that Earth was not perfectly round. Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator. He was correct ...
Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human …
WEBSep 1, 2018 · By around 40,000 years ago, based on current evidence, H. sapiens. found itself all alone, the only remaining member of what was once an incredibly diverse family of bipedal primates, together ...
Your Brain on Porn and Other Sexual Images - Scientific American
WEBAug 19, 2015 · Here are the details on 3 studies that examined the brain on porn and other sexualized images.>. Study #1: Your Brain On Porn. In May 2014, a study in the prestigious journal JAMA Psychiatry was ...
The Science Behind Dreaming - Scientific American
WEBJul 26, 2011 · The Science Behind Dreaming. New research sheds light on how and why we remember dreams--and what purpose they are likely to serve. For centuries people have pondered the meaning of dreams. Early ...
Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think
WEBOct 5, 2020 · The consequence of humanity being “incredibly inbred” is that we are all related much more closely than our intuition suggests, Rutherford says. Take, for instance, the last person from whom ...
Why is the earth's core so hot? And how do scientists measure its ...
WEBOct 6, 1997 · Earth. There are three main sources of heat in the deep earth: (1) heat from when the planet formed and accreted, which has not yet been lost; (2) frictional heating, caused by denser core ...
New Tinnitus Treatment Alleviates Annoying Ringing in the Ears
WEBOct 7, 2020 · According to a new study, published today in Science Translational Medicine. , a noninvasive device that applies a technique known as bimodal neuromodulation, combining sounds with zaps to the ...
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