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Can we influence the evolution of an idea...

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Read part 1 of this series at:
http://www.themunicheye.com/news/The-yin-and-yang-of-social-interaction-3211

Can you imagine an exclusive social circle with a qualification-based filter in the interest of blossoming and evolving ideas?

If so, how would such a group function?

It would be akin to birds of a feather flocking together and as a result would preclude contact with people from different social settings.

Naturally, exchange of ideas between such distinct separated groups would become...

Eyes wide open

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Eye contact is the most basic interaction with another person. When people look into each other's eyes, they spontaneously indicate that their attention is focused on the other person. If the look is returned then a channel for interaction is opened. Eye contact has been described as the 'window into the soul' and is a powerful social signal.

Past research has identified specific brain patterns associated with locking eyes with someone or looking at someone who isn't returning your gaze. The...

Even cheap wine can taste great

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

"It's cheap wine so it will not taste great." Does this imply that the wine is really tasteless?

Or is one so prejudiced about the wine such that even if it actually tastes great, one's brain is oblivious to that?

New research published in the Journal of Marketing Research shows that a consumer's preconceived notion about a product may create a placebo effect such that it results in producing actual biological changes in the brain.

Scientists, Hilke Plassmann and Bernd Weber promote this as a...

Rise and shine, Philae!

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

After going off the grid for seven months, Rosetta's lander Philae is back.

On November 12 2014, it became the first human-made object ever to land on a comet when it touched down on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

However, the landing was rough.

Due to an anchoring system failure, Philae couldn't hold on to the surface of the comet, bounced a couple of times and ended up in a dark ditch.

Stranded there, it was getting very little light for its solar panels to recharge the batteries.

In the couple...

Hot and attractive: magnetism can control heat transmission

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

From power plants to car engines, from houses to laptops, pretty much everything we do and use disperses a lot of energy as heat.

Unfortunately, we have nearly no way of channeling it.

According to Professor Joseph Heremans, thermal scientist at Ohio State University, "all you can do is collect it with a conductive material. But you cannot control it: once the material's in place, that's it."

So, ultimately, most of the heat dissipates and is lost forever. But if one could control the flow of...

How to train your swarms: multitudes of robots at the tip of your finger

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

How can a single person command a swarm of five, ten, or even hundreds of small robots to perform a coordinated task?

According to Prof. Magnus Egerstedt of the Georgia Institute of Technology, "People are always going to be engaging with robots and intelligent machines, but there is no way we can control individual robots anymore: we need to rethink how we engage with them."

Together with his team, he says, they addressed the problem by "having people manipulate not the robots themselves, but...

Editorial: In the grand scheme of things....

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The key to leading a happy fulfilling life is to keep it stress-free. However, it's a well-known fact that in this day and age, we all live under constant pressure of some form or the other.

This month, on the health section of The Munich Eye, Dominika talks about several ways to combat stress- the most important being to practice mindfulness, which is similar to meditation. Many health institutions all over the world are promoting the necessity of a calm mind to increase human productivity.

But...

Galaxy collisions shed new light on dark matter

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Dark matter has been mysterious ever since its discovery. According to Dr Holger Israel, a cosmologist at Durham University in England, "we know that something is there that can't be any of the particles we know about. But we don't have a good idea yet what it is." Yet that something makes up 85% of the mass in the known universe. The mystery arises, at least in part, because dark matter is extremely elusive. It's invisible because it does not interact with light (hence its sinister-sounding...

How the brain hears sound- tick-tock, tick-tock!

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

New research published by Dr. Daniel Bendor, University College London discusses the concept of how our brain captures sound information by the timing of its activity.

When asked about the motivation behind the study, Dr. Bendor reports, "The brain uses different neural codes (languages) to describe our sensory world. For hearing, our brain can represent a sound by either the magnitude (how loud or soft the sound is) or timing of activity in brain cells. As a result, our work uncovered a simple...

Coalition politics- Let's do the math

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Einstein said it best, "Politics is for the present but an equation is for eternity". Can eternal math equations be used to define politics? Or better still, would politicians benefit from quantum mechanics!?

As bizarre as it may sound, new research published last month by mathematician Dr. Fabio Bagarello, from University of Palermo in Italy predicts election outcomes based on coalition governments using principles from classical mechanics!

When asked about the motivation behind this study Dr....

Seek and ye shall find (Water on Jupiter's Moon)

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

An international group of astronomers found an immense ocean buried under the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter's moons.

In a recent paper reporting the discovery, scientists estimated the ocean to be an amazing 100 km deep (10 times more than Earth's deepest abyss) and to contain more water than there is on Earth.

Even more amazingly, the scientists found it using the Hubble Space Telescope to look inside Ganymede.

Of course, not directly, instead, they brilliantly exploited...

Editorial: From the macro to the micro

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Science is an offshoot of human curiosity that knows no bounds.

We try and cover stories in Science and Health sections of TME and bring you wide ranging discoveries.

This editorial seeks to summarize some of the articles we have published in the previous month.

With a talented team of science writers, we hope to keep bringing you the most exciting news in science.

Now, humans have always been curious as to what is going on in the universe.

In 2012, amateur stargazers made a sighting of an...

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