Science news articles about 'material objects'

Money is a necessity: it provides us with material objects that are important for survival and for entertainment, and it is often used as a reward. But recent studies have shown that money is not only a device ...

... suggests that buying life experiences rather than material possessions leads to greater happiness for both ... bored of happy memories like we do with a material object. "People still believe that more money ...

... 't as they seem – that colours, sensations, beliefs and desires don't really exist and that material objects are really just collections of ideas ... . Eddington told us that ordinary physical objects were really vast tracts of empty space ...

... both linear and angular momentum that can be transferred to a material object. Optical tweezers and traps, for example ... or absorption of light can produce a mechanical torque on an object. Previous attempts to harness this transfer of angular ...

... not just in words — the verbal structure of a book — but also in the material object,” Price said. “It can hide your face ... school, thinking about a book this way as a physical object was considered “fairly vulgar.” “It was done outside ...

... class of "global nomads" who are less attached to material objects. "No one has studied contemporary global ... an important lens in which to understand the new role of objects in people's lives, as consumers will seek to temporarily ...

... at room temperature. One of the basic laws of thermodynamics says that material objects radiate heat -- the higher the temperature ... , for example, in studying such things as quantum dipolar material (molecules which, though neutral, possess an electric ...

... power is always bound up by the ways in which they take material form, such as the imprints on coins, the architecture of public ... tended to have a rather reductive view of the importance of such material objects, seeing them simply as things ...