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South Korea’s National Space Situational Awareness Organisation said on Sunday the 10.4-metre-long (34-foot) Tiangong-1 space station is expected to re-enter the atmosphere some time between 5:12am and 1:12pm Seoul time on Monday (between 1:12 pm and 9:12 pm Eastern Time on Sunday). The debris from the abandoned eight-tonne craft could land anywhere between the latitudes of 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south – from New Zealand to the American midwest, the ESA said.
Let’s explore the pineal gland!
Elon Musk has long stressed that he founded SpaceX in 2002 primarily to help make humanity a multiplanet species — a giant leap that would render us much less vulnerable to extinction.
Your brain actually makes some of its own decisions while you sleep. As well, sleep helps the brain process your emotions about a situation, so you are less irrational in your decision making.
Musk said: “It’s looking quite promising that a solar roof actually cost less than normal roof before you even take the value of electricity into account. So the basic proposition would be ‘Would you like a roof that looks better than a normal roof, last twice as long, cost less and by the way generates electricity’ why would you get anything else.”
Colleagues have revealed that Stephen Hawking’s final academic work was to set out the groundbreaking mathematics needed for a spacecraft to find traces of multiple big bangs. Currently being reviewed by a leading scientific journal, the paper, named “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation,” may turn out to be Hawking’s most important scientific legacy.
Patients could submit a cheek swab or saliva sample to a lab that sequences their DNA. The lab would feed the patient’s DNA, along with levels of activity, stress, and diet into an algorithm. The program would then spit out recommendations for how patients can best reach their target weight.
In recent years, Stephen Hawking, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, was outspoken on a variety of issues, often addressing societal, environmental, and existential dilemmas plaguing humanity. Here are Hawking’s final warnings to humanity.
Think you’ve heard it all when it comes to why people are seeing 11:11 and other repeating numbers? Think again! For many, it all started with the 11’s (i.e. 11:11 on the clock) and now it’s burgeoned well beyond the pair of ones to include a whole range of double digits (22, 333, 44 and […]
What do you think is the perfect number of hours to work every week? One study has the answer. Read this!
The next time a hazardous asteroid lines Earth up in its crosshairs, we may be ready for the threat. Scientists and engineers with the U.S. government have drawn up plans for a spacecraft that could knock big, incoming space rocks off course via blunt-force impact or blow them to bits with a nuclear warhead.
“Can we be manipulated through social pressure to commit murder?” ~Derren Brown. It’s an important question at a time when the converging technologies of AI and social media are affecting individual and group psychology in not yet understood ways. British illusionist Derren Brown recently conducted an experiment on social pressure, this time in a feature documentary for Netflix entitled, “The Push.”
Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study also found that the more empathy a comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall into sync. And the more those brain waves sync, the more the pain goes away.
Hawking’s answer to the question “What was there before there was anything?” relies on a theory known as the “no-boundary proposal. In in a lecture on the no-boundary proposal, Hawking wrote: “Events before the Big Bang are simply not defined, because there’s no way one could measure what happened at them. Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang.”
The findings suggest that the mere presence of one’s smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity and impairs cognitive functioning, even though people feel they’re giving their full attention and focus to the task at hand.
