No. It’s a myth. Nobody gets drunk faster than anyone else. However, Japanese and Chinese people, rather than Asian people do possess a gene that means that they have more difficulty... Читать далее
Пленка слезы на роговице несколько меняет оптические параметры преломления последней, вследствие чего может на короткое мгновение несколько изменяться острота зрения.
Just to add to the point about the eye, Richard Dawkins gave an excellent demonstration about the evolution of the eye in his Christmas Lectures in 1991.
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Wrinkles...every woman's (and some men's) nightmare. I want to embrace natural ageing, and even though I sometimes joke about getting botox in my forehead, I would never do it. However, I... Читать далее
The physiological response is similar for men and women. It’s mainly different sexual organs and different hormones. In terms of orgasm there are four main steps: arousal, plateau, climax... Читать далее
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Мы посчитали, что не все хотят видеть подобный контент в ленте, но вам виднее.
Actually, it’s not so much what it does to your body; it’s what it does to your brain. But let’s look at the body to begin with – and there’s two things that are happening here. Firstly... Читать далее
Geneticist, science writer, broadcaster, and author of the books Creation: The Origin Of Life/The Future Of Life and A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. @adamrutherford
That’s a question at the root of the study of the origin of life. It’s a lot to do with information theory – which is a whole academic field that I don’t really understand – but we can... Читать далее
Plant biology research scientist John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, co-creator of www.statslife.org.uk/resources/for-journalists, a science resources for journalism students with the Royal Statistical Society. @popupcamptrout
Which new genetic breakthroughs will change our lives?
The thing you're most likely to have heard of recently is gene editing, or genome editing, which has certainly entered popular consciousness in the last couple of years. There are indeed... Читать далее
Geneticist, science writer, broadcaster, and author of the books Creation: The Origin Of Life/The Future Of Life and A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. @adamrutherford
In genetics, what are the most important things we still don’t know?
Absolutely loads. Genetics is effectively a century old. When we got to the Human Genome Project in 2001, and had a much more molecular understanding of how DNA works, it turned out that... Читать далее
Geneticist, science writer, broadcaster, and author of the books Creation: The Origin Of Life/The Future Of Life and A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. @adamrutherford
It’s a fascinating question, and my initial challenge to it is: do we? The variations that we see in human populations are enough to warrant human behaviour reflecting them, and those... Читать далее