Sci-Tech
Visual, or optical, illusions show us that our minds tend to make assumptions about the world – and what you think you see is often not the truth. Throughout history, curious minds have questioned why our eyes are so easily fooled by these simple drawings. Illusions, we have found, can reveal everything from how we process time and space to our experience of consciousness. Here’s why… #opticalillusions
A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne has produced a reconstructed head of an 18 to 25-year-old woman who lived at least 2000 years ago that they named Meritamun, which means beloved of the god Amun. #AncientEgypt
Tesla’s invention would allow for self-propulsion of an unmanned vehicle for which he foresaw many potential uses, the most impressive of which, Tesla believed could help bring peace to the world. #nikolatesla #drone #worldpeace
In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar—but what counts as good evidence? #nasa
Smartphone addiction in children can be just as deadly as alcohol or cocaine.
As developers use Angular to build everything from web and desktop, to mobile applications, the opportunities for professionals who are trained in Angular are rising.
New research could be key to our understanding of how the aging process works. The findings potentially pave the way for better cancer treatments and revolutionary new drugs that could vastly improve human health in the twilight years. #aging
More than 20 large-scale epidemiological studies, tracking millions of people over many decades, report the same clear relationship: the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life #sleep #dreams
One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe? For much of human history, people believed that Planet Earth was the very center of the entire universe. And Earth is pretty big. But compared the rest of the universe, we are infinitesimally small. Check it out in this PBS Space Time video. #astronomy #universe
Joe Kirschvink, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology who is currently testing humans for a magnetic sense, says that “it’s part of our evolutionary history. Magnetoreception may be the primal sense.”
New research suggests that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with a material — silica aerogel — that mimics Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse effect. Through modeling and experiments, the researchers show that a 2- to a 3-centimeter-thick shield of silica aerogel could transmit enough visible light for photosynthesis, block hazardous ultraviolet radiation, and raise temperatures underneath permanently above the melting point of water, all without the need for any internal heat source. #livingonmars
Actually, you don’t even have to hug a tree (though it’s always nice). Just being near trees has a positive effect on you!
Kodi is an open-source and free media player software platform developed by XBMC foundation that is compatible with multiple hardware and software platforms. It allows people to stream online media from channels. Online video streaming is not the only function of the Kodi media platform. Here are some other features available with the best kodi addons.
Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of “our universe”. And of “started” for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught. #bigbang
Neuralink, the Elon Musk-led startup that the multi-entrepreneur founded in 2017, is working on technology that’s based around “threads,” which it says can be implanted in human brains with much less potential impact to the surrounding brain tissue versus what’s currently used for today’s brain-computer interfaces. #elonmusk #neuralink #brainimplant
