There are several laws of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics is with regard to the Conservation of Energy. This law describes how energy behaves, in that it cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed in an isolated system. In other words, energy is moved between related systems, but...

According to the article from Discover Magazine, there is significant evidence that North America is overdue for a giant earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone west of Washington and Oregon in the Pacific Northwest. According to reporter Jerry Thompson, the enormous fault line has been calm for three centuries. However,...

The humankind’s disregard for our planet, environmental sustainability and the diversity of species in fauna and flora has been the cause of many ecological catastrophes. Even though an exhaustive list would contain numerous disasters of large scale, it is useful to highlight several most shocking examples of human carelessness for...

The development of cognitive processes is largely affected by the environment that surrounds a person. As such, environmental factors can impede the development of some cognitive processes and trigger the development of others (Lundahl & Hull, 2014). In order to understand the way economically depressed and high-crime environment might potentially...