The world as you've never seen it before. 100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body. The Brain The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away?
It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Hair and Nails Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. Internal Organs Bodily Functions. Science News. Home. Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American. Learn how Everything Works!". Popular Science | New Technology, Science News, The Future Now. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. Science in the Yahoo. Definitions of Sciences and Studies. Sciences and Studies This list defines 633 sciences, arts and studies of various degrees of respectability and rarity, ranging from the common and esteemed (chemistry) to the obscure and quirky (peristerophily).
Over the past century, the range and scope of scientific endeavours has expanded exponentially, so that practically any field of study has a name associated with it. Most of these terms end in 'ology', from the Greek logos, meaning 'word'. I hope you have found this site to be useful. If you have any corrections, additions, or comments, please contact me. Please note that I am not able to respond to all requests. Science’s 10 hottest fields. Understanding the genome The sequencing of the 6 billion chemical “letters” of human DNA was completed in draft in 2000 and in final form in 2003. But clinical benefits have arrived more slowly than the initial hype suggested.
This is mainly because the human genome actually works in a much more complex way than predicted by the late-20th-century model. Twenty-first-century research shows that we have only 21,000 genes, one-fifth of the number predicted when the project started, and that just 1.5 per cent of the genome consists of conventional protein-coding genes. Extra planets – and extraterrestrials? Astronomers have long theorised that many of the billions of stars in our galaxy must have orbiting planets. The composition of the cosmos Cosmologists are still coming to terms with the surprising 1998 discovery that mysterious “dark energy” is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
Leap for quantum computing Graphene, the ‘wonder material’ The superlatives are endless. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything. Stephen Wolfram: Official Website.
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