atoms
aurora borealis
Australians, aboriginal
avian malaria
B
B612 Foundation
Bacon, Francis
bacteria
appendix and
on Mars
ball lightning
Barrett, Deirdre
baryonic matter
bees, disappearance of
Bell Burnell, Jocelyn
BICEP2 telescope
Big Bang
Big Crunch
Big Freeze
Big Rip
Binet, Alfred
bird pox
birds, v-formation flight of
Black, Donald
black holes
bottom of
star explosions and
Blackburn, Elizabeth
blushing
boomerangs
Borge, Victor
Bostrom, Nick
brain
consciousness and
déjà vu and
dreaming and
emotion and
intelligence and
laughter and
love and
memory and
of men and women, compared
percentage used
plasticity of
sleeping and
sneezing and
uploading to computer
workings of
“bubble fusion” reaction
Burnett, Royal
C
calorie intake
carbon atoms
Carman, Christián
carrier pigeons
Cash, Webster
Cassini spacecraft
cats, purring of
cellphone theory
cells
death of
longevity and
noise from
cerebellum
Chaput, John
chondrites
chromosomes
cloning extinct animals
coccyx
cochlear implants
cockroaches
cold fusion
cold water, freezing of
combustion, human
computer, uploading brain to
condensation
consciousness
convergent boundaries
core of Earth
Cowley, Steve
Crab Nebula
crust of Earth
cryptochromes
Curiosity rover
D
da Vinci, Leonardo
Däniken, Erich von
dark energy
end of universe and
general explanation of
shape of universe and
dark matter
Dark Sector Lab (DSL)
Darvill, Timothy
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
de Jong, Peter
death
Debrègeas, Georges
déjà vu
deoxyribonucleic acid. See DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
Descartes, René
Diamond, Jared
dieting
diffraction
dinosaurs
destruction of
water and
dirt, age of
disc galaxies
disease
dissolved gases
Ditzen, Beate
divided attention
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). See also genes
alternative to
cloning extinct animals using
longevity and
origin of life and
Doomsday Argument
dopamine
Doppler Effect
dreaming
Drebbel, Cornelius
DTI scan
ducks, color of feet of
E
Earth
core of
life on, origin of
life on, supernova’s effect on
magnetic poles on, flipping of
water on, origin of
earthquakes
inability to predict
light flashes before
Easter Island statues
Ebbinghaus illusion
Egyptian pyramids
Einstein, Albert
black holes and
empty space concept and
general relativity theory of
gravity and
special relativity theory of
elevator to space
Eliot, T.S.
elk, migration of
embarrassment
emotion
empty space
end of universe
energy, dark. See dark energy
Energy Catalyser (E-Cat)
Ennos, Roland
Esser, John “Ernie,”
Evans, James
evaporation
event horizon
Everett, Hugh
expansion of universe
extinction
cloning extinct animals
of humankind
of megafauna
of Neanderthals
extraterrestrial life
Eyjafjallajökull volcano
F
Faherty, Michael
faster-than-light travel (FLT)
feelings
Fermi bubbles
fingerprints
fire tornadoes
Fischer, John
Fisher, Helen
Fishman, Charles
Fleischmann, Martin
Flynn effect
food, effects on descendants’ genes
Fornax constellation
Foster, Susan
free radicals
Freeth, Tony
freezing of water
Freud, Sigmund
Freund, Friedemann
friction, fingerprints and
frontal lobe, of brain
frost
Frost, Robert
fur, lack of on humans
fusion
cold
nuclear
G
Gallup, Andrew
gamma rays
causes of bursts from
destruction of life by
Fermi bubbles and
Gardner, Peter
gases, dissolved
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Geary, David
geese, v-formation flight of
general relativity, theory of
genes
and cell death
and food’s effect on descendants
geodynamo
Gimzewski, Jim
Glatzmaier, Gary
global warming
glyptodons
Goldilocks Zone
gomphotheres
Graves, Jenny A. Marshall
gravitons
gravity
dark matter and
on Mars
shape of universe and
Great Red spot, on Jupiter
greenhouse gases
Greider, Carol
gyroscopic precession
H
habitable planets
Haier, Richard
hallucinations
Hansen, James A.
Harris, Judith Rich
Hawking, Stephen
Hess, Christian
Hewish, Antony
hiccuping
hippocampus
Hirst, K. Kris
Hobson, Allan
Holocene period
holodecks
hologram theory
Homo neanderthalensis
hormones, love and
hot water, freezing of
hottest temperature
Hubble, Edwin
Hughes, Jennifer
human body. See also brain; DNA
aging
appendages, “useless,”
appendix, purpose of
blushing
cells, noise from
death
déjà vu
dreaming
emotion
fingerprints
food’s effects on descendants’ genes
fur lacking on
hiccuping
laughter
longevity
memory
parts of, replacement of
peanut allergies
sleeping
sneezing from sunlight
tickling
Y chromosome
yawning
human combustion, spontaneous
humpback whales
Hunt, Terry
Hunter, Sandra
Huygens, Christiaan
hypernovas
I
ice age, next
icicles, formation under water
IllumiRoom
immune system
inflation theory
integrated information theory
intelligence
International Asteroid Warning Network
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reaction (ITER)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
IQ tests
J
Jeng, Monwhea
Jimenez, Raul
Jones, Alexander
Jung, Rex
Jupiter, Great Red spot on
K
Kijk, Corine
Knoll, Andrew
koalas
L
language
Lanza, Robert
laughter
life, origin of
light
particle theory of
speed of
lightning
ball lightning
volcanic
Lightspace
limbic system
limbs, artificial
Lipo, Carl
lithosphere
loggerhead sea turtles
longevity
love
low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs)
Lu, Chensheng
Lu, Ed
Lyons, Leslie
M
magnetic fields, sensing of
magnetic poles, flipping of
magnetoception
maladaptive brain plasticity
male nipple
Malhi, Yadvinder
Malkin, Tamar
mammoths
mantle of Earth
Marcus, Philip
Marine Isotope Stage 19c
Mars
bacteria on
gravity on
humans habitation of
length of day on
soil of
temperature on
water on
Martin, David
massive astrophysical halo objects (MACHOs)
maximum temperature
Mayan civilization
McCarley, Robert
McGinn, Colin
megafauna
megalodons
Melosh, Jay
memory
messenger pigeons
meteorites
migration of animals
Milankovitch, Milutin
Milankovitch cycles
Milky Way galaxy, shape of
Miller, Stanley
mind uploading
moai
moon illusion
moons, not orbited by other moons
mountain ranges
Mpemba, Erasto
Mpemba effect
Muller, Richard A.
multiverses
Muñoz-Furlong, Anne
muoncatalyzed fusion
Musk, Elon
N
National Ignition Facility (NIF)
Neanderthals
near-death experiences (NDEs)
neonicotinoids
neurons, in brain
neurotransmitters
neutrinos
neutron stars
Newton, Isaac
Nickell, Joe
nipple, male
noise, made by cells
nuclear fusion
nuclear holocaust
O
ocean, icicle formation on floor of
omnidirectional treadmill
Opportunity, rover
optogenetics
organs, replacement of
Ornland, Kevin
oxidative damage
oxygen free radicals
oxytocin
P
Page, David
Pagel, Mark
parasites
parietal lobe, of brain
Parker, William
Parnia, Sam
particle theory of light
Pavich, Milan
Payne, Roger
peanut allergies
Pearce, Steven
Pelling, Andrew
Perlmutter, Saul
pesticides
Peters, Madelon
phantom limb syndrome
phenomenon colony collapse disorder (CCD)
photic sneeze reflex (PSR)
photoelectric effect
piezoelectric effect
pigeons
pinky toe
Piran, Tsvi
Planck temperature
planets, habitable
plasticity of brain
plate tectonics
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Pons, Stanley
Ponzo illusion
Portugal, Steven
prefrontal cortex
prosthetics
protons, durability of
Provine, Robert R.
Ptácek, Louis J.
pulsars
Purcell, Chris
pyramids
Q
quantum physics
R
radiation exposure
radioisotopes
Raichle, Marcus
Rapa Nui
recombination
relativity theory
general
special
rhinoceros, woolly
RNA (ribonucleic acid)
Roberts, Paul
Roche, Edouard
Rocky Mountain elk, migration of
Roggeveen, Jacob
Rosetta space probe
Rossi, Andrea
Rothenberg, David
S
Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy
Saladin, Kenneth
Saturn, rings of
Schinner, Andreas
Schmidt, Brian
sea turtles, migration of
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute
senescence
Sentinel telescope
Shostak, Seth
Simon, Theodore
singing, by whales
Skinner, Luke
Skunkworks
sleeping
sneezing, from sunlight
Snook, Richard
space elevator
SpaceX (company)
special theory of relativity
Spergel, David N.
spontaneous human combustion (SHC)
stars, explosion of. See also supernovas
Stonehenge
subduction zones
Sullivan, Andrew
sunlight, sneezing from
supernovas
causes of
dark energy and
destruction of life on Earth by
synapses
Szostak, Jack
T
tailbone
Taleyarkhan, Rusi
Tan, Darren
Taylor, Doris
telomeres
temperature
hottest
on Mars
temporal lobe, of brain
theory of general relativity
Thériault, Robert
thermodynamics
Thomas, Henry
Thurber, Andrew
tickling
time travel
Toon, Brian
tornadoes, fire
Tuki, Suri
Turner, Michael S.
Tutankhamen
U
universe
alternative universes
end of
expansion of
freezing of
shape of
V
virtual reality
virulent infectious diseases
volcanic lightning
vortices
Voynich, Wilfrid
Voynich Manuscript
W
Wainwright, Geoff
water
as dinosaur urine
hot freezing faster than cold
on Mars
origin of
wave, whether light is
wave-particle duality
weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS)
Weinberger, Norman
whales, singing of
wick effect
Wilde, David
Wood, Robert
woolly mammoths
woolly rhinoceros
wormholes
X
XNAs (xenonucleic acids)
Y
Y chromosome
yawning
Z
Zwicky, Fritz
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