Alexandru Micu

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Why People Believe in Pseudoscience-and Why It’s So Dangerous

2 months ago | msn.com | Alexandru Micu

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Faulty findings, real appeal: the psychology of pseudoscience

2 months ago | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the fringes, now floods our social media feeds, seeps into our political discourse, and influences public health decisions. With the rise of conspiracy theories and alternative “facts,” distinguishing between science and pseudoscience has never been more critical.
Not armed, but dangerous: New Armless dinosaur species unearthed in Argentina

Jan 7, 2025 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu |Mihai Andrei

Researchers in Argentina have uncovered a new species of dinosaur, Guemesia ochoai. It’s got almost no arms, a small head, and it’s not what you’d expect to find in the Late Cretaceous. This small, hornless predator represents the first definitive abelisaurid discovered in northwestern Argentina. The fossil, a nearly complete braincase, was unearthed from the Los Blanquitos Formation in the Amblayo Valley, Salta province.
Drone footage on New Year Eve is the prettiest thing I've seen today

Dec 30, 2024 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu

Most of us have seen the New Year’s Eve fireworks, but have you ever seen them from a above? A modern twist is revolutionizing how we experience this timeless spectacle: drone footage. Equipped with advanced technology, drones offer a new perspective, weaving through explosions of light to capture mesmerizing views. New Year’s Eve is always spectacular, with everyone celebrating the coming year with a sky filled with color from a thousand explosions.
CT-Scan of an unopened walnut beautiful and relaxing

Nov 26, 2024 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu |Mihai Andrei

We usually think of walnuts as a healthy snack or a delightful addition to a salad. But there’s an intricate world that exists beneath their rugged shells. Thanks to recent advancements in imaging technology, scientists can peer inside these humble nuts, revealing a complex internal architecture that could have significant implications for agriculture, nutrition, and even materials science. The internal geometry of a walnut is strikingly complex.
Do animals recognize themselves in the mirror? And what does that mean for us?

Sep 26, 2024 | msn.com | Alexandru Micu

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Do animals recognize themselves in the mirror? And what does that mean for us?

Sep 26, 2024 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu |Tibi Puiu

For an item that most of us use every day without much thought, mirrors can be a rich source of insight into the inner workings of our minds. Self-awareness is something we consider to be a hallmark of the human experience. It represents the ability of an individual to recognize where they begin and where they end. Self-awareness means that a subject can conceptualize and experience their own personality and individuality.
Face of the dollar: the story of Peter the Mint Eagle

Aug 7, 2024 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) stands today as the United States’ national bird and the centerpiece of its seal. As such, this raptor has a long and rich tradition of appearing soaring or in-flight on the country’s legal tender, the U.S. dollar, and its denominations. But a little-known fact is that most dollar designs don’t simply depict a bald eagle — but the same bald eagle, named Peter.
Operation Beluga -- or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving

Aug 5, 2024 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu

The Soviet Union (USSR) is a thing most people today know only from memory or history books. And many parts of its history are unsavory, to say the least. But Operation Beluga (‘Belukha’ in Russian) isn’t one of those. Operation Beluga was not your typical Cold War covert ops. It involved sending an ice-breaker and blasting classical music at full volume to save a pack of thousands of whales that were trapped by ice in the Chukchi Peninsula.
This Halloween, do the right thing -- fight food waste and eat your pumpkin

Oct 27, 2023 | zmescience.com | Alexandru Micu |Tibi Puiu

Pumpkin pollution is a real problem. Billions of pounds of pumpkin will end up in the landfill, not on a plate, and that’s probably the scariest thing about Halloween. Throw up your spider webs and hang those skeletons, Halloween is here! As all terrors are let loose on the day, excessive food waste is also creeping up. Billions of pumpkins have been bought for the occasion — and most of them will end up in the landfill, not beneath a pie’s crust. Which is a shame, as pumpkins are delicious.