Tag: Complex

In the years immediately following World War II, the U.S. military discovered that UFOs were a serious national defense issue.
To secretly investigate this mysterious phenomenon an ad hoc military bureau was formed by President Harry Truman named "Majestic-12" or "MJ-12". Over the years since its inception this covert agency has likely gained more autonomous ...

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2011) Across many groups of animals, species with bigger brains often have better cognitive abilities. But it's been unclear whether overall brain size or the size of specific brain areas is the key.



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ScienceDaily (July 1, 2010) The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago.
This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago.

ScienceDaily (Dec. 10, 2009) In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.

A quasicrystal is a solid whose components exhibit long-range order, but without a single pattern or a unit cell that repeats.