A new kind of material is making quite a lot of buzz among scientists. Called graphene, this new material recently aided researchers in calculating one of the fundamental constants of nature, allowing us to solve one of the universe's mysteries. The amazing thing is, graphene is only an atom thick. Read more in the full article.

It seems that scientists are discovering more and more things about dinosaurs everyday. Recently, Dr. Jonathan Codd and his team of UK researchers recently found out that dinosaurs tended to breathe like penguins. Apparently, the dinosaurs' respiratory system shared certain similar features features with the uncinate respiratory system found in modern diving birds. Dr. Codd explains that it's those similarities that made the dinosaurs very, very deadly.

Want to know what an uncinate system is? Read on after the jump!

We're pretty sure you've heard of a hilarious beer goggle story - or is the main character in one. Don't be ashamed, we all get Shallow Hal vision every time we empty a bottle of beer.

How do beer goggles work? Say you enter a bar and drink a couple of alcoholic beverages and poof! everybody who looked less than attractive when you entered has turned a supermodel in your bleary eyes. Scientists found that alcohol doesn't just impair judgement, it also stimulates the nucleus accumbens, the part of the brain that decides facial attractiveness.

While under the influence, alcohol stimulates that part of the brain - all by itself. So everybody you see goes up a couple of notches up in your beauty meter. The results of a study done on students at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University showed that moderately tipsy people rated people's attractiveness 25% higher than the sober people.

Just how many beers do you have to drink to get beer goggles? In another study conducted at Manchester University in England in 2005, scientist came up with an equation that calculates the beer goggle effect.

 

An is the number of servings of alcohol
S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

At β = 1, beauty perception is the same as while sober. At 100... Man, you're in trouble.

The mystery of the Stonehenge continues to shroud the scientific community, that is why they are not letting up on finding out just where these amazing structures came from. But while they have yet to determine the mysteries lying deep within it (alien conspiracy theories, anyone?), what they did discover was that it didn't stand alone.

To be more precise on that, archaeologists suggest that Stonehenge, along with other standing stones, were actually used for ancestor worship and commemoration of the dead. The research team, headed by Colin Richards of Manchester University and Joshua Pollard of Bristol University found new evidence that hinted at a stone monument being once present in the site.

Apart from this, they also found evidence from old maps and ancient sources for other similar monuments near Stonehenge. Says Pollard, "There may have been many smaller megalithic settings across this landscape." If ever, then those monuments would have a very primordial connection to Stonehenge, as it emphasizes on the symbolic role of spreading the authority of Stonehenge as a place for miracle cures to a wider landscape.

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