Must we take a look at all fast paced cities. Urban life is practical everything is within reach. But cities can be stressful and the major stress factor is the noise. Noise pollution is one of the Biggest Health risks in urban areas. Our reporter anna sacco went in search of sounds of silence in the big city. New home. After being out in nature with a good book nothing better. If you like me live in a big city. Its pretty hard to find a little peace and quiet. Noise pollution its everywhere you go but what is noise anyway noise a sound especially one thats loud on pleasant. From a physics down pronto nice and sound are the same thing. Both of the travel air on gas. But theres a slight problem with our definition of what i consider noisy but not be noisy for you. Still we can measure sound levels anything over eighty five decibels is potentially dangerous and not only for your years. And Research Just noise and Healthy Living in the city was the noise such a problem in the city noise is the second there were a mental stress or after air pollution. It isnt health risk it is just they find by their World Health Organization noise can cause sleep disturbance cardiovascular diseases. And long children especially. The constant noise is actually bad for you and its a problem all over the world. A Large International study has even suggested a link between hearing loss and Noise Pollution in big cities. But how can we escape the sounds of the city. Urban planners like already working on solutions. What will the city of the future look like. I dont know how i will look like but i could imagine how it will sound like so i would. Pull a theatre with natural sounds like. A. Bird. These sounds and lives been indicated as positive sounds by people using the house at the. Is a Research Project started in two thousand and seventeen its supposed to help people discover ways of quiet in their cities ive downloaded to my phone now all i need to do is to record the sound of the quite spots take a picture. Answer a few questions and add it to the hush database. Ok lets go. Out and about in the name of science that we can use help us like me to collect our data. Out of citizens that is so fundamental people that live and work spaces in c d r d a real x. Pairs of our cities. It sure is fun to be a citizen scientist. But finding a quiet spot to stephanie proving a challenge. And the ultimate goal of the project is through a contribution to the identification and protection of quiet areas in cities and is very effective and contributing to the reduction of Noise Pollution in cities. Lets check out the quiet spots my fellow citizen scientists already found. Just what i was looking for a. Fish free to join me. In the eighteen eighties its proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. And thats what ultimately enabled the development of one of his communications. In china more than seven hundred seventeen Million People have smartphones in germany more than fifty five million own one. News. Spending ever more time on your face and online and our stress levels are rising as a result i cant resist the lure of our phones. Life can be very hectic half of all germans question said they felt constantly busy and for many of us when we do have downtime like while waiting for a bus our phones come out our full attention. We look at our phones an average of eighty eight times a day according to a recent study we stream data chat with friends read up on news and information. Germans spend an average of two and a half hours a day online young people spend up to seven hours on their phones and other mobile devices. And euro scientists getting back refuses to get out his phone while waiting for the bus well explain why later. What is it that causes most people to constantly check their phones people mention it theres nothing more interesting than something thats new were naturally curious right from birth we love things that are surprising and modern phones really cater to that. Back is visiting a think tank in frankfurt that does research into future trends and advises companies. A cultural anthropologist runs a workshop on the affects of Digital Media on our lives have discovered after i believe its driven by the users desire for response you want to know has someone written to me as someone tried to reach me if i got a new like you know Everyone Wants a response system so like feedback. Its more a response that confirms you have a relationship with someone or with your surroundings or with yourself theres someone there who sees me hears me and as a result i feel probably a life and. There are many other motives that prompt us to pick up our first. One factor we hate boredom as a study in the us illustrates scientists left test subjects to wait alone in a room they were hooked up to a machine with which they could give themselves a mild electric shock after just a few minutes two thirds of the men and one quarter of the women had indeed pressed the button. Its this version to boredom along with our natural curiosity and desire to help others respond to us but social media platforms and mobile phone apps exploit. This technology has two main effects first our Attention Span has gotten a lot shorter peoples attention tends to jump from one subject to another second but over time it becomes more difficult for us to set priorities to differentiate between whats important and whats not that its exactly that ability to differentiate that we need when were confronted with so much information. Some mobile phone users are like addicts who develop withdrawal symptoms when theyre without their phones. Its awful that we laugh about it it is funny. Papa says the era of the smartphone has led to an outbreak of abnormal behavior thats no longer healthy. But i met many people take their phones everywhere even if they just go into another room or that they dont have their phone with them but they keep imagining the vibrations that their phone makes or they hear the ring sounds. So theres a neurotic element to it. To get from him so many users find themselves constantly checking their various apps in boxes for messages clicking from link to link or stream to stream this neurotic behavior is reminiscent of zoo animals. Who spend their entire lives pacing up and down in their cages. You look at the phone to check the time and before you know it youre caught up reading something else. Romo or fear of missing out triggered by seeing what your friends are doing. Who have had it happen and its friday night ive had a hard week and i plan to spend the evening on the couch with a good book and get an early night. Everyone needs downtime like that. But then i look at my phone and i see on facebook that theres a concert tonight that i wanted to go to and on instagram i discover my friends are meeting at a bar around the corner. And yet doing nothing can actually be very fruitful its when we slow down that our brains have a chance to get creative and thats often when we have our best ideas. Our two experts are convinced that mindfulness can be a helpful tool in the digital age. And when i eat my body needs time to digest if i just kept on eating out explode its the same with information my brain needs to be able to review things to set priorities and have time to think. And thats why heading back leaves his phone in his pocket while hes waiting for the bus that way he has the chance to digest the things that hes just experienced. Looking at your smartphone is a kind of addiction no matter where you are no phone has to be close by do you experience that too. What do you do to distract yourself from the urge to constantly check your phone. We put that question to you on facebook. Black from materia says hes too addicted to his phone to know how to limit it and he asks will suggestion this. One from mexico has one he says you have to occupy yourself with other things like playing an instrument reading a book or meeting up with actual people. Frederick from kenya says the only time he can resist checking his phone is. Doing chores and errands and other times he will have his phone in his hand and check social media even when hes watching t. V. Lets see has a simple remedy go fishing he says. And up top videos comment is that if he had no smartphone he wouldnt see our question on facebook and we wouldnt exist no worries we definitely exist. Traffic jams also take a toll on our nerves according to one study los angeles is the most congested city in the world people there spend an average one hundred two hours a year in traffic jams in moscow or new york ninety one hours many traffic rich cities also struggle with evolution its no wonder many people dream of escaping the smog at street level and taking to the skies that could soon be reality. Is it all just high in the sky all we one day really stick around in flight taxis self driving an electrically powered of course if you can imagine that you can make it cloudy as i will thinks its quite possible she studied English Literature and is a specialist in fantasy literature Companies Pay her to call exciting ideas from Science Fiction novels she says Science Fiction has often invision developments that later became part of everyday life star trek featured mobile phones for example long before they were invented. Many things were once considered crazy but then new Technology Comes along like wireless communication for example and suddenly this new device becomes possible. Into by an autonomous taxi has been undergoing child operations it was built by a german company. Its amazing how different it is from other aircraft its extremely stable. As if it were flying on tracks. Alexander is one of the founders of copter he says a ride in a sky taxi shouldnt cost a lot more than an earthbound one developing a vehicle is one thing getting it licensed and widely accepted quite another. Many people badmouthed it they say itll never get off the ground were used to that. At last years self by southwest tech conference in austin texas several sessions were devoted to flying taxis which generated a lot of enthusiasm. It could be that people in the United States are in general more open to high tech innovation. Becomes a Silicon Valley clue to the entire Silicon Valley culture was born out of nerdy size five culture. Whether its Facebook Google or apple they all say when i was young i read this or that and that inspired my inventions thats common currency perhaps thats why people there are more ready to take wacky new ideas seriously. By contrast some new that in old europe people are more stuck in their ways less prone to flights of fun to think its a controversial claim but sociologists have been a fifer says there are real differences historically determined after money and if you lose a few. In germany or europe in general the philosophical tradition is more like the state should deal with or provide certain things. Its rather different in other countries. These cultural differences have developed over time as to the facts new toshiba. But there is evidence countering such claims several flying cars were on show at the twenty eight thousand Geneva Motor Show and called the front seat of many visits. I want to try that and lift off the stick im sure its going to happen so its not realistic no its not going to happen its. Aleksandr it so they wont be deterred by the naysayers his Company Appears to be going strong it has twenty five Million Euros in funding from dinah the Parent Company of miss eightys. Says this wasnt i dont like to stand still but to explore new realms thats what fascinates me. Still there are limits. One thing that many people dream of that definitely wont be possible is. Beam me up scotty its great in movies but as long as the laws of physics hold well never be able to beam somebody up it would take too much energy here on earth. And its allies. Heading skyward in a flying taxi might be a pleasant if more modest alternative. Aliens from outer space are a staple of the Silver Screen like in tim burtons nine hundred ninety six comedy so i thought film mas attacks. Martians attack the earth but ultimately the clever earthlings prevail. In all seriousness though could they be not on mass. Chapter cassius from pretoria wants to know more. Could there be life on mars. When the astronomer Giovani Schiaparelli discovered grooves on a neighboring planet the idea of little men from mars became a fashion it was thought there could only be one explanation for the canals. Mass became a canvas for bizarre fantasies it was thought that its color came from red vegetation. After the war of the worlds the image of mars inhabitants changed h. G. Wells describe the high tech civilization the martians what coming to conquer us. Science fiction space probes showed decades later mars is a desert planet cold and hostile to life. This meteorite awoke a new hope in one thousand nine hundred six to this day experts are discussing whether this clump from mars could contain tiny microfossils it is possible. Huge quantities of water used to flow on mars water is the most important prerequisite for life about four billion years ago there were rivers and lakes on what is now a dr planet. American research rovers have already found several pieces of evidence for that. Back on earth astrobiologists discovered like funky and microbes that can survive in extreme regions and it turns out they could also survive on mars that was proven on the International Space station that they were exposed to deadly space packed in these boxes and they survived the ordeal. Researchers believe they could even thrive on mars not on the surface but buried in deeper levels of the ground where there are reservoirs with liquid water. Thats why the europeans want to launch their First Research rover to mars soon itll drill into the surface to a depth of up to two meters and search for fossils of mars microbes but detecting living microbes would take decades if they exist at all. Why our lab and even if you. Do you have a science question that youve always wanted answered it were happy to help out send it to us as a video text ovoid smell if we answer it on the show well send you a little surprise as a thank you can i just ask. Did you find as i did have a dot com slash science or drop us a line at e w underscore site tech on facebook d w dot science. Time for al. Video of the week this three d. Printed robot fascinated many of us. Its a model of all a baathist chopstick an extinct tetrapod that lived during the permian era around two hundred and nineteen million years ago. Scientists at berlin about university and the playtex institute of luzon on the fossil and fossil tracks to create a robot simulation. Called our robots its made out of motors with flexible plastic and steel. With the help of the robots the scientists were able to prove how the ancient animal moved and come to conclusions about its evolutionary history. Tend to think of fish as something well fishy. That we should identify more with them after all our ancestors came from the primordial seas. Fish have plenty of surprises hidden beneath us. In the storerooms of the German Oceanographic Museum inch trials and is a treasure trove of fish from the depths of the oceans as well as the mediterranean and the baltic biologist t. Mo markets has been doing research here for more than fifteen years studying fish from all over the world. Using a method known as clearing he looks inside the specimens to examine their skeletons. Just think of every possible vertebrate on land from the bat to the elephant to the penguin well there are just as many species of fish and as a fish scientist id say theyre just as diverse to. First the bones and cartilage are stained with red and blue dyes respectively the flesh is dissolved with enzymes and the fishes immersed in the medium such as glycerin to make the remaining connective tissue transparent the process can take months team or more had to his ph d. Student philip he may have prepared countless specimens like this one. And. The best thing about this technique is that you always discover things you werent expecting when you look at a fish from the outside you hardly have any idea whats inside it. And when you have a new cleared specimen and look at it under the microscope its incredible how many amazing structures you can discover. And they can come. For example here in syria now or in the share or taiwan where the scientists have conducted field studies searching for new species of fish many of their specimens come from swamp areas in africa or from asian fish markets every specimen is examined using a microscope and then photographed this produces fascinating images that display the fish anatomy in great detail of. My very first cleared specimens already gave me the idea that theres so much to see and explain here that you should really turn it into an art project. So thats what he did. The museum put some of his exquisite pieces on display sand lances feature on the prints for instance as to monkfish and other bizarre looking creatures. And got the phenomena suddenly you see bones where there shouldnt be any the answer is simple this large smelt ate a smaller one is the head the eyes the backbone of the small one the tail is still in the big ones mouth. 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