Doomsday Clock remains at a minute and a half to midnight in …
Jan 23, 2024 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 23 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock will remain at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse.. Every year, the Bulletin determines how much metaphorical time we have to avert catastrophe for humankind.Over the past 75 years, the hands of the clock have moved according to whether steps were taken to address ...
What happens when we die? with Sam Parnia (Ep. 148)
Show Notes. For centuries, death has been seen as a final, inescapable line—a moment when the heart stops and the brain ceases to function. But revolutionary research asks: What if everything we thought we knew about death was wrong?
What is Carbon Dating? | University of Chicago News
Prominent archaeologist Frederick Johnson said that carbon-14 dating had the impact of an “atomic bomb” on archaeology. In 1997, anthropologist R.E. Taylor said that “14C data made a world prehistory possible by contributing a time scale that transcends local, regional and continental boundaries.”. Carbon-14 dating has, for example, helped established how the modern calendar relates to ...
The origin of life on Earth, explained - University of Chicago News
Sep 19, 2022 · The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical conditions nurtured the first life forms. Several seminal experiments in this topic have been conducted at the University of Chicago, including the Miller-Urey experiment that suggested how the …
How does sleep affect health? | University of Chicago News
Why do we sleep? Sleep is literally critical to our survival. We know this thanks to the groundbreaking work of UChicago Prof. Allan Rechtschaffen, a sleep research pioneer and longtime director of the UChicago Sleep Laboratory. Rechtschaffen was driven by a desire to understand why we sleep. All mammals, birds and reptiles sleep in some form or another, and nearly all animals exhibit some ...
COVID 2025: How the pandemic is changing our world
In this episode of “COVID 2025: Our World in the Next 5 Years,” Baicker discusses how the pandemic has shown the interconnectedness of the U.S. population—and that old dividing lines between the insured and uninsured no longer make sense.
What is dark energy? | University of Chicago News
“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured it—but some force seems to be currently pushing the universe to expand faster than it should, according to everything else we know about the cosmos.
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What's the truth about alcohol's benefits and risks? Big Brains …
Show Notes. We have long heard the claims that a glass of red wine is good for your heart, but it turns out that the research that fueled this wisdom was actually skewed.
The first nuclear reactor, explained | University of Chicago News
However, a bronze sculpture by noted artist Henry Moore called “Nuclear Energy” and a plaque commemorate the spot and are open to visitors. The sculpture is located on the east side of Ellis Avenue between 56th and 57th streets, just south of the Max Palevsky residence hall and north of the glass dome of Mansueto Library.