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New scientists twitter competition led to more than 500 tweets regarding this subject and you can find top ten tweets that tried to explain what it exactly is. Here we go. Timeless energy, / all dressed up, no place to go: / had to create space. / - #BigBang #haiku #sci140 - haiQ God said delB=0 etc, & then light (sym breaking), separation light from darkness (recombination), man created from dirt (evolution) #sci140 - dmadance #sci140 starburst, molecule, amino acid, protein, cell development, cell division, sex, technology, war, religion, OK magazine. - jonotrumpeto @newscientist #sci140 Antimatter and matter duke it out. Matter wins 1 billion and one to 1 billion. The matter left expands and makes us. - zeroentropy @newscientist . #sci140 A place for everything, and everything in one place. Then -- kaboom, everything all over the place. - tui4 @newscientist The Big Bang: the moment the universe vanishes when extrapolating its expansion backwards into the past #sci140 - hubi1857 ...

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All animals, including humans, have an internal 24-hour clock or circadian rhythm that creates a daily oscillation of body temperature, brain activity, hormone production and metabolism. Studying mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Northwestern University found how the biological circadian clock mechanism communicates with processes that govern aging and metabolism. Their findings can potentially explain why the waning of the circadian rhythm with age could contribute to age-related disorders such as insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. "Our study establishes a detailed scheme linking metabolism and aging to the circadian rhythm," says one of the lead authors, Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., who researches aging at Washington University School of Medicine. "This opens the door to new avenues for treating age-related disorders and ways to restore a healthy daily circadian rhythm. It could also yield new interventions to allevia...

Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music, according to a new report published online on March 19th in Current Biology. The result shows that the expression of those three basic emotions in music can be universally recognized, the researchers said. "These findings could explain why Western music has been so successful in global music distribution, even in music cultures that do not as strongly emphasize the role of emotional expression in their music," said Thomas Fritz of the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. The expression of emotions is a basic feature of Western music, and the capacity of music to convey emotional expressions is often regarded as a prerequisite to its appreciation in Western cultures, the researchers explained. In other musical traditions, however, music is often appreciated for other qualities, such as group coordination in...

Wash away your gray? Maybe. A team of European scientists have finally solved a mystery that has perplexed humans throughout the ages: why we turn gray. Despite the notion that gray hair is a sign of wisdom, these researchers show that wisdom has nothing to do with it. Going gray is caused by a massive build up of hydrogen peroxide due to wear and tear of our hair follicles. The peroxide winds up blocking the normal synthesis of melanin, our hair's natural pigment. "Not only blondes change their hair color with hydrogen peroxide," said Gerald Weissmann, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "All of our hair cells make a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide, but as we get older, this little bit becomes a lot. We bleach our hair pigment from within, and our hair turns gray and then white. This research, however, is an important first step to get at the root of the problem, so to speak." The researchers made this discovery by examining cell cultures of human hair foll...

According to Virgil Griffith, smart people and dumb people can be figured out by the music they like. see it for yourself here .