Ground-Breaking Discovery Proves Rain Can Move Mountains

The dramatic effect rainfall has on the evolution of mountainous landscapes is widely debated among geologists, but new research led by the University of Bristol and published in Science Advances clearly calculates the impact of rain, furthering our understanding of how peaks and valleys have developed over millions of years. Rain can erode mountains very quickly Its findings, ...

Troy Oakes

The Himalaya Mountains.

Feng Shui Analysis of the ‘Blood Flag’ and the Impact Behind It

On October 1 every year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities order the “blood flag“ to be hung up on all the streets of Mainland China. This year, while the global COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the CCP virus, is still raging and oblivious to the rest of the world in lockdown, the display of ...

Michael Segarty

A row of trees along a dirt road.

What a Traditional Chinese Lifestyle Looks Like

The communist takeover of China ended centuries of traditional Chinese lifestyle, bringing about new thoughts and social systems in the country. As a result, modern Chinese society is more a reflection of communist values than traditional values. So what would a traditional Chinese lifestyle look like? The traditional Chinese family The one important thing that ...

Nspirement Staff

A Chinese girl wearing traditional clothing and carrying a fan.

Oldest Monkey Fossils Outside of Africa Found

Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, that are about 6.4 million years old, indicate monkeys existed in Asia at the same time as apes, and are probably the ancestors of some of the modern monkeys in the area, according to an international team of researchers. Nina G. Jablonski, Evan ...

Troy Oakes

Two monkeys in a tree.

The Healing Power of Classical Music

“Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.” — Georg Solti It was the summer before my third-grade year, while I was visiting family in Morgantown, West Virginia, that my aunt Veronica sat down to play the ...

Tatiana Denning

A violin being played.

Looking for Pieces of Venus? Try the Moon

A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin atmosphere. Yet testing such theories is difficult without geological samples to examine. The solution, according to Yale astronomers Samuel Cabot and Gregory Laughlin, may be closer than anyone realized. Cabot and ...

Troy Oakes

A comet striking Venus.

The Fascinating World of Biological Transmutations

Biological transmutations have been gaining increasing interest in the past few decades. In physics, nuclear transmutation is the process of converting one isotope of an element into another chemical element. During this process, the number of neutrons or protons in the nucleus of the resulting element will be different from the original one. A French ...

Nspirement Staff

nuclear transmution in a cell.

3 Acupressure Points to Help Ease Shoulder and Neck Pain

Everyone uses tablets and mobile phones. Unfortunately, they force you into a posture that strains your neck, shoulders, and back. Most people lower their heads to look at the screen of their smart device or tablet. In addition, they then raise their shoulders and slant their necks into a bent-forward position. As a result, this ...

Hermann Rohr

A man and woman walking looking down at mobile phones.

Recipe Is Different, but Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Ingredients for Life

Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is playing a key role in an international mission — dispatching a robotic drone to Saturn’s moon Titan — set to blast off in 2027. For nearly two decades, the global ...

Troy Oakes

Titan's Dragonfly quadcopter.