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Seals Playing Video Games For Science? We've Got The Footage To Prove ItSeals Playing Video Games For Science? We've Got The Footage To Prove ItSeals are pretty incredible mammals. Not only do they possess the lung capacity to make epic dives and are caring mothers, but they also survive in some pretty testing conditions. Down deep in the ocean, there is very little light, and the water can be very cloudy, so how are these pinnipeds navigating? One research group...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 664 Views
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The Strange Science Behind Time Feeling Faster As You AgeThe Strange Science Behind Time Feeling Faster As You AgeThe Strange Science Behind Time Feeling Faster As You AgeTime crawls, until suddenly, it races.While time ticks on at a steady pace, it doesn’t always feel that way.Image Credit: photofriend/Shutterstock.comAsk most people getting older, and they'll tell you, time feels like it's speeding up as you gradually run out of it. The endless...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 468 Views
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What Is Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Actually About?What Is Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Actually About?President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that has the stated goal of restoring trust in science – but critics are claiming the order will allow the administration to dictate what science can be done and shared, limiting freedom of research across the United States.In section 7 of the executive order, the administration...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 602 Views
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"Anomalous" Radio Pulses Detected In Antarctica Are Coming From Underneath The Ice"Anomalous" Radio Pulses Detected In Antarctica Are Coming From Underneath The IceA particle detector flying above Antarctica has detected highly unusual radio pulses coming from beneath the ice. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of instruments above Antarctica using a stratospheric balloon. The experiment is aimed at detecting cosmic neutrinos,...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 450 Views
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"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever SeenJWST has broken its own record and seen even farther away into the past of the cosmos. 1CommentPortion of the COSMOS-Web, the area of the sky where this new distant galaxy is located. Image credit: COSMOS-Web / Kartaltepe / Casey / Franco / Larson / RIT / UT Austin / CANDIDEThe...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 802 Views
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"Egyptian Blue" Was A Color Lost To History. Finally, We Can Make It Again"Egyptian Blue" Was A Color Lost To History. Finally, We Can Make It AgainSometimes, when you see dusty artifacts in a museum or crumbling ruins in the streets, it’s easy to forget that these things were once new. Ancient Greek statues were complete and gaudily-painted; Pompeii was a bustling (and other activities) metropolis. In Egypt, the Pyramid at Giza shone and sparkled in the Sun – and...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 754 Views
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"Interstellar Concert": ESA Beams "True Unofficial Space Anthem" To NASA's Voyager 1"Interstellar Concert": ESA Beams "True Unofficial Space Anthem" To NASA's Voyager 1A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the weekend. The waltz, composed in 1866, was recorded by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra before being sent over 24.9 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) to NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.If...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 746 Views
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"Mother Nature" Has Legal Rights In Ecuador, But Does It Help Save The Planet?Is Declaring Rivers, Trees, And Animals Legal “Persons” Actually Useful In Conservation?“I don’t think legal personal rights of nature are a panacea. I think it's a step forward,” Dr Viktoria Kahui told IFLScience. Image credit: Olga_Shestakova,WPAINTER-Sid, fajarhidayah11, Miroslav Srb, Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock.com, modified by IFLScienceIt’s not often that nature takes on the “bad...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 534 Views
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"Necrobotics" Turns Dead Spider Corpses Into Biohybrid RobotsScientists Turn Dead Spider Corpses Into Biohybrid NecrobotsDead spiders tend to curl up in a rather creepy clawed position, but beyond looking a little ominous, it seems their lifeless bodies may have useful applications in robotics. Scientists from Rice University have harnessed the unusual locomotion mechanism of wolf spiders to create a type of robotics they’ve coined “necrobotics”. That’s...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 827 Views
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"Octopus Maps" Promote Conspiratorial Thinking Even When It Is Unintended"Octopus Maps" Promote Conspiratorial Thinking Even When It Is UnintendedHave you ever heard of an octopus map? If not, you’ll likely see them everywhere after this, as a new study demonstrates. In short, an octopus map is a map that depicts some enemy as a centralized menace with various tentacle-like threats dispersing from them across other territories, or indeed the whole world....0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 496 Views
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"Remarkable" Pattern Discovered Behind Prime Numbers, Math's Most Unpredictable Objects"Remarkable" Pattern Discovered Behind Prime Numbers, Math's Most Unpredictable Objects"Finding a pattern behind the primes is a quest that has bested millennia of mathematicians."Image Credit: Bocskai Istvan/Shutterstock.comIn the third century BCE, a clever Greek chap by the name of Eratosthenes came up with a novel new piece of mathematics: a "sieve", by which one could painstakingly trawl...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 91 Views
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"Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before": Repeating Signal From Deep In Galactic Plane Puzzles Astronomers"Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before": Repeating Signal From Deep In Galactic Plane Puzzles AstronomersAstronomers are puzzled after detecting an unusual, repeating long-period transient (LPT) signal emitted deep in the Galactic Plane.Last year, a team from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, found the strange signal using the ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia. The...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 736 Views
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"World's Smallest" Nano-Violin Measures Less Than A Hair's Width – But Could Lead To Big Discoveries"World's Smallest" Nano-Violin Measures Less Than A Hair's Width – But Could Lead To Big DiscoveriesPhysicists have created a "nano-violin" so small that it could fit within the width of a human hair. This is not only good news for anyone feeling sorry for themselves – it also demonstrates the capabilities of a new nanolithography system that allows researchers to build and study nanoscale...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 633 Views
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10 Teeny Tiny Chevrotains: Meet The Smallest Hoofed Mammals On Earth10 Teeny Tiny Chevrotains: Meet The Smallest Hoofed Mammals On EarthA group of teeny tiny mouse-deer in the family Tragulidae numbers 10 species that live in warmer parts of Southeast Asia, India, and Africa. They are small, delicate, and extremely elusive: they are the chevrotains.Technically, these animals are neither related to mice nor deer, instead existing in their own taxonomic family...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 456 Views
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1782, The Year A Caterpillar Outbreak Terrified London1782, The Year A Caterpillar Outbreak Terrified LondonLondon in the early 1780s was a tumultuous place. At the start of the decade, anti-Catholic riots, known as the Gordon Riots, had caused chaos in the city, leaving hundreds dead and many parts of the city in cinders. Across the Atlantic, the American Revolution was in full swing, so political attention was trained on the New World. Then,...0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 549 Views
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