Urwa Fatima's articles News Are Certain People More Susceptible to Addiction? We can get addicted to a wide variety of things, from drugs to the internet, and at times it becomes difficult to imagine life without them. Scientists have found out how our biology and genetic makeup can make us more susceptible to any sort of addiction. It has to do with the connectivity of different […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2020-03-012021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Sciences News Can Plants Panic? Stressing out and panicking is something humans do almost all the time, but what’s surprising is that plants can panic too. Moreover, their source of panic comes from none other than the fundamental element of life: water, in the form of rain. It almost seems unbelievable that how something so essential for survival can cause […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-12-052021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Health Sciences Mathematics News Mathematical Model of Vision Ever wondered how do we actually see the world around us? It’s much more complicated than just the retina transferring huge amount of visual information into our brain and biology alone cannot explain the actual process – this is where mathematics bumps in. Three scientists from New York University, Young, Shapley and Chariker, are on […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-09-172021-09-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Life Science News Playing the Piano of the Mind Observing the monotonous EEG (Electroencephalography) patterns has been so last century that now scientists have shifted to actually manipulating the brain, causing innocent mice to hallucinate in an experiment done at Stanford University. In the experiment, the mice were conditioned to lick a vertical bar and not the horizontal bar when presented with the visual […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-08-162021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News NASA’s New Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon to Search for Life on Titan Titan, the gigantic moon of Saturn which had inspired a number of fictional stories and movies, is now going to be studied in reality as NASA announced the launch of their new mission “Dragonfly” on 27th of June. Potentially habitable with atmosphere that matches that of Earth’s along with liquid water found beneath its surface, […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-07-082021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Life Science News Fighting Forgetfulness This might seem relatable: turning your house upside down in the hunt for your glasses only to find them hours later on your head, or you have planned to write something but have forgotten the content the second you picked the pen, having difficulties in following multi-step directions and inconsistent performance. This all happens when […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-05-062021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
News Are Certain People More Susceptible to Addiction? We can get addicted to a wide variety of things, from drugs to the internet, and at times it becomes difficult to imagine life without them. Scientists have found out how our biology and genetic makeup can make us more susceptible to any sort of addiction. It has to do with the connectivity of different […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2020-03-012021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Can Plants Panic? Stressing out and panicking is something humans do almost all the time, but what’s surprising is that plants can panic too. Moreover, their source of panic comes from none other than the fundamental element of life: water, in the form of rain. It almost seems unbelievable that how something so essential for survival can cause […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-12-052021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Health Sciences Mathematics News Mathematical Model of Vision Ever wondered how do we actually see the world around us? It’s much more complicated than just the retina transferring huge amount of visual information into our brain and biology alone cannot explain the actual process – this is where mathematics bumps in. Three scientists from New York University, Young, Shapley and Chariker, are on […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-09-172021-09-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Science News Playing the Piano of the Mind Observing the monotonous EEG (Electroencephalography) patterns has been so last century that now scientists have shifted to actually manipulating the brain, causing innocent mice to hallucinate in an experiment done at Stanford University. In the experiment, the mice were conditioned to lick a vertical bar and not the horizontal bar when presented with the visual […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-08-162021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News NASA’s New Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon to Search for Life on Titan Titan, the gigantic moon of Saturn which had inspired a number of fictional stories and movies, is now going to be studied in reality as NASA announced the launch of their new mission “Dragonfly” on 27th of June. Potentially habitable with atmosphere that matches that of Earth’s along with liquid water found beneath its surface, […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-07-082021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Science News Fighting Forgetfulness This might seem relatable: turning your house upside down in the hunt for your glasses only to find them hours later on your head, or you have planned to write something but have forgotten the content the second you picked the pen, having difficulties in following multi-step directions and inconsistent performance. This all happens when […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-05-062021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
