LifeTheFacts https://www.lifethefacts.com and the science behind them Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:59:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.lifethefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Logo-trans-favicon-final-32x32.png LifeTheFacts https://www.lifethefacts.com 32 32 Fossil Fuels Reduction https://www.lifethefacts.com/fossil-fuels-reduction/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:07:25 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2962 Why Should We Reduce Our Usage Of Fossil Fuels? Apart from the fact that they are almost certainly responsible for climate change, will eventually run out, and they will get progressively more expensive as they become scarcer. Some sources of renewable energy are already providing cheaper methods of generating electricity...

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]]> Energy Storage https://www.lifethefacts.com/energy-storage/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:37:10 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2900 Energy storage for the production of continuous green or clean energy

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]]> Green or Clean Energy https://www.lifethefacts.com/green-or-clean-energy/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:43:49 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2888 Energy that does not produce CO2 or other emissions that affect the climate. Typical examples are wind and solar power and are also referred to as renewable energy sources. Many of these energy sources have become cheaper to produce and run than many fossil fuel powered energy sources. A key...

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]]> Fission Energy with Thorium https://www.lifethefacts.com/fission-energy-with-thorium/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 09:13:42 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2879 Thorium can be used for nuclear energy. If thorium had been selected instead then there would have been no nuclear meltdowns because thorium reactors are self limiting and can’t run away. The energy released in nuclear fission generates heat which is then used to generate steam to drive a turbine...

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]]> Fission Energy https://www.lifethefacts.com/fission-energy/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:21:17 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2852 This is the traditional form of nuclear energy, where very large atoms like uranium and plutonium are split by neutron bombardment, and the reduction in mass is released as energy. The energy released in nuclear fission generates heat which is then used to generate steam to drive a turbine and...

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]]> Climate Change https://www.lifethefacts.com/climate-change/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:14:54 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2821 Climate Change

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]]> Fusion Energy https://www.lifethefacts.com/fusion-energy/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:35:15 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2793 Fusion Energy

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]]> Sci Fi Novel about fusion energy, AI, climate change and… https://www.lifethefacts.com/sci-fi-novel-about-fusion-energy-ai-climate-change-and/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:36:48 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=2767 Sci Fi Novel about fusion energy, AI, climate change and...

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]]> Artificial Intelligence, AI Terms Defined https://www.lifethefacts.com/artificial-intelligence-ai-terms-defined/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:10:24 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=442 Artificial Intelligence is a catch-all phrase for computer systems that can perform tasks commonly associated with human cognitive functions such as interpreting language and speech, playing games, identifying objects and patterns. Artificial intelligence, or AI, today is divided into three broad categories – ANI, AGI, and ASI. Artificial Narrow Intelligence,...

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]]> Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Narrow Intelligence, ANI https://www.lifethefacts.com/artificial-narrow-intelligence-ani/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:09:55 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=444 Artificial Intelligence - Narrow

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]]> Artificial General Intelligence – AGI https://www.lifethefacts.com/artificial-general-intelligence-agi/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:08:48 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=446 Artificial General Intelligence is where a computer system is capable of understanding and performing tasks at a human-like level across the full human scale and range of cognitive abilities and capacities. The aim is to rival, equal, and then possibly exceed human cognitive capacities, individually, and eventually collectively – as...

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]]> Human Eyes Colour Sensitivity https://www.lifethefacts.com/human-eyes-colour-sensitivity/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:06:59 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1839 Rod cells in the retina of our eyes give the ability to see light and give us our night vision when light levels are low, but rod cells cannot distinguish colour. Cones cells, located in the centre of the retina (in an area called the macula), are not much good...

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]]> Eyes, a New Receptor Cell Found in Human Colour Vision https://www.lifethefacts.com/eyes-a-new-receptor-cell-found-in-humans/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:19:00 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=295 Scientists studying the response of specific mice with retinal diseases to a light/dark cycle. The mice were blind – they had no rods and cones cells left, but their body clocks were working okay. This lead to the discovery of a previously unknown light receptor cell in the eye: containing...

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]]> How Do Human Eyes Work https://www.lifethefacts.com/how-do-human-eyes-work/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:38:34 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1654 The retina at the back of the eye is a complex part of the eye, and its job is to turn light into signals about the images on its surface that the brain can understand. Only the retina is light sensitive, and it is roughly the area of a 10p...

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]]> Artificial Super Intelligence, ASI https://www.lifethefacts.com/artificial-super-intelligence-asi/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:10:30 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1475 Artificial Super Intelligence is where a computer exceeds humans across all human scale cognitive abilities and capacities. The aim is to vastly exceed human cognitive capacities, individually, and then eventually greater than the whole of humanity collectively! It is thought by many that when a computer intelligence becomes truly generally...

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]]> Modern Science Defined https://www.lifethefacts.com/modern-science-defined/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:03:53 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1215 Modern science has only really existed for around 400 years or so, since the refinement of the scientific method.

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]]> Genetics Is The Study Of Heredity And The Variation Of Inherited Characteristics https://www.lifethefacts.com/genetics-the-study-of-heredity-and-the-variation-of-inherited-characteristics/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:14:35 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1187 The laws of inheritance were discovered by Gregor Mendel due to his experiments between 1856 and 1863. He was cross breeding garden peas and observing the characteristics of the resulting plants and the peas produced from the parent plants. He observed dominance and segregation. Inheritance worked in numerical ratios and...

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]]> Particle Physics, Exploring the Very Smallest and Largest Scales of Reality https://www.lifethefacts.com/particle-physics-the-scale-of-reality/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:57:08 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=697 The scale of reality goes from the smallest to the largest things we know. Particle physics explores the very smallest scales of reality and reaches its limit according to current modern physics at the Planck length which is equal to 1.616255 ×10−35 m. At the opposite end of the scale...

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]]> Light and Human Colour Vision https://www.lifethefacts.com/light-and-human-colour-vision/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:17:09 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=492 Sunlight White light from the Sun is fundamental to human colour vision, but it can be split into all the colours of the rainbow. The light waves are refracted (bent) as they enter and leave the prism. The shorter the wavelength of the light the more it is refracted, so...

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]]> Life and Its Origins https://www.lifethefacts.com/life-and-its-origins/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:29:14 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=355 How did life on Earth begin, when and where did it start? Was there more than one origin? When did organic chemistry become biology i.e., life, a process called abiogenesis? Chemistry based on carbon is incredibly varied and can be extremely complex, it is thought that at some point under...

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]]> Human Brain, and Its Incredible Complexity https://www.lifethefacts.com/human-brain-and-its-incredible-complexity/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:26:40 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=423 Contains 86 billion neurons with an average of 5000 interconnections per neuron – but up to as many as10,000. This computes to a staggering 430,000,000,000,000 – 430 trillion connections. The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of the brain consisting of six layers or cells and was the last part...

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]]> Black Holes Come In Many Forms https://www.lifethefacts.com/black-holes-come-in-many-forms/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:21:20 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=405 In cosmology understanding black holes is a crucial area of study and ultimately may lead to resolving one of the biggest mysteries in physics, the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity. The simplest black holes are formed from collapsed stars. When a large star runs out of its fuel...

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]]> Cosmology From The Beginning https://www.lifethefacts.com/cosmology-from-the-beginning/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:27:26 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=382 Cosmology from the beginning – Part Twenty-Seven Because Astrophysicists have discovered that the universe is apparently expanding, and have measured the rate of this expansion, they can run the clock backwards at that rate and calculate the age of the universe.  Using the latest, most accurate, information it appears to...

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]]> Food and Health and a Long Health Span https://www.lifethefacts.com/food-and-health-and-a-long-health-span/ Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:31:20 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=357 Eat food, mainly plants, not too much.

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]]> Sir Roger Penrose, the Famous Mathematical Physicist and Cosmologist https://www.lifethefacts.com/sir-roger-penrose-the-famous-mathematical-physicist-and-cosmologist/ https://www.lifethefacts.com/sir-roger-penrose-the-famous-mathematical-physicist-and-cosmologist/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:24:41 +0000 https://www.lifethefacts.com/?p=1 Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, was born in Colchester 8th August 1931, the son of Margaret (Leathes) and Lionel Penrose – psychiatrist and geneticist.

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