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Interested in the Big Bang? You’ve got to read this!
The facts about our bodies are amazing! Asap SCIENCE talks about the beauty of our heart, bones, DNA, skin, brain and other constituents of our bodies.
You don’t passively perceive your environment as much as create it. Watch this fascinating, informative video on how your brain engages in ‘controlled hallucinations’.
A new study of early humans has challenged one of the main tenets of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the idea of the survival of the fittest, by suggesting compassion and the ability to accommodate “defective” members of the community actually played a significant role in how humans developed.
Solar eclipse skywatchers outside the path of totality will still be able to see a partial solar eclipse. Solar viewing glasses (NOT regular sunglasses) allow skywatchers to look directly at the moon’s progress across the face of the sun. You can also view the progress of a partial solar eclipse using a pinhole camera.
Mathematicians at the Universities of York, Munich and Cardiff have identified a unique property of quantum mechanical particles – they can move in the opposite way to the direction in which they are being pushed. This discovery paves the way for further research into quantum mechanics.
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This dramatic Pluto flyover footage begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra—which exhibits deep and wide pits—before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere.
MIT associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science Vivienne Sze and her team made a breakthrough last year by designing an energy-efficient computer chip that could allow mobile devices to run powerful artificial intelligence systems.
Talking to yourself has been proven to help one through difficult tasks, performance. So when you take on something new, talk yourself through it. Hearing yourself say it becomes another form of input and helps you learn in multiple ways.
Another interesting study from 2015 shows that being open minded can affect a person’s ability to perceive unexpected objects while attention is focused on something else, called “inattentional blindness.”
Science says there’s a good chance you don’t what really makes you happy. When estimating our happiness, we humans tend to engage in something called “impact bias” where we overestimate the actual effect that different outcomes will have on our life.
When if they think they’d be happier winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic, most people quite understandably respond that they’d be happier with all that money and no handicap.
Still, real life statistics show that one year after winning the lottery or losing the use of their lower body, people in both these groups are equally happy. Yes, really, EQUALLY.
The researchers noted that medical marijuana dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. What this study illustrates is that Sessions’ policies of bringing back D.A.R.E., continuing to clamp down on pot, and removing state’s rights, would not only be detrimental to fighting the opioid epidemic, but it would also create more crime.
The intense CME shockwave struck around 6am UTC, causing immediate magnetosphere compression and delivering vastly increased electro-magnetic pressure on the Earth’s system. The shockwave was very dense, and geo-magnetic disruptions are underway. Major troubles with transformers, airlines and airport radar, GPS, internet, and communications can begin at any time and last through the peak of the geo-magnetic disturbance, but it shouldn’t be as bad as it could have been.
In recent years, a number of high-profile figures have come out to state their belief that we are living in a simulation. Chief among them is tech magnate Elon Musk, who has stated that the video game No Man’s Sky confirmed his belief that someday simulations would approximate reality so comprehensively that they would be indistinguishable from reality. When he was asked about whether humans are living inside a computer simulation, Musk made headlines last year by saying he thinks the chances are one in billions that we aren’t.
Even more unsettling is who is funding the mindreading research and, evidently, has a stake in it: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) via the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), an organization within ODNI. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s own website, the government organization’s roots can be traced back to the early years of the CIA.
