Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication

Einstein

Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1916: Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication: As a consequence of Einstein’s work, it became clear (well, clear to some scientists, at least) that time and space comprise a single continuum David B. Green March 20, 2016.

Click Here to Read: Without Albert Einstein, We’d All Be Lost: Do you like your GPS? Thank his general theory of relativity, an astonishing feat of the human mind By Robert Dijkgraafin the Wall Street Journal on November 5, 2015. Continue reading Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication

Astronomers say they’ve found the biggest structure in the universe and they named it the BOSS

MilkyWay

Click Here to Read: Astronomers say they’ve found the biggest structure in the universe and they named it the BOSS By Sarah Kaplan in The Washington Post on March 11, 2016.

You think the Milky Way (shown here in the night sky over the German island of Fehmarn) is big? Pfft. Wait till you hear about the BOSS Great Wall. (Daniel Reinhardt/European Pressphoto Agency)

Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children’s genes

GenesHolocaust

Click Here to Read: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children’s genes: New finding is first example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children by Helen Thomson on the Guardian website on Augst 21, 2015.

The team’s work is the clearest sign yet that life experience can affect the genes of subsequent generations. Photograph: Mopic/Alamy

Smoking cannabis DOESN’T cause clinical anxiety or depression, study finds

Canabis

Click Here to Read: Smoking cannabis DOESN’T cause clinical anxiety or depression, study finds A new study finds that cannabis does not increase risk of developing mood or anxiety disorders Researchers used a national sample of nearly 35,000 U.S. adults 18 or older The study also found that cannabis can increase risks of developing drug and alcohol use disorders By Valerie Edwards in the Daily Mail on February 20, 2016.