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Nov 5, 2018

Astronomers Once Watched a Star Turn Directly into a Black Hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

History is full of forgotten heroes. Sometimes that’s because somebody else got credit for their work. Sometimes it’s because they were women in a male-dominated world. And sometimes it’s because a couple of continents *cough* Western society *cough* decided they didn’t want to include them in the history books. Meet Ibn al-Haytham — the guy who basically invented Science with a capital S.

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Nov 5, 2018

A Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid

Posted by in category: futurism

The finding could help answer a longstanding question of how massive stone blocks were hauled into place.

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Nov 5, 2018

Stanford Breast Cancer Research Shows Pervasive Cell Spread

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Scientists have zeroed in on breast cancer cells’ most imminent danger lies in the spreading, which helps find new ways to prevent them.

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Nov 5, 2018

Researchers Can Now Monitor Whales Via Satellite

Posted by in category: satellites

The latest high resolution satellites can pick out whales surfacing in huge swaths of ocean, which will aid in conservation.

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Nov 5, 2018

Memories of your parents may have long-term health effects

Posted by in categories: health, neuroscience

Your perceptions of your parents directly affects your physical health and wellness, according to new research. And regardless if they are true, you might be stuck with them for life.

“There are things that happen to us in life that can alter our perceptions of the past, but it’s not always the objective—or what actually happened—that really affects us,” says lead author William Chopik, psychology professor at Michigan State University.

“What really impacts adults is how we psychologically interpret things and create memories. In short: our memories of our childhood predicted health and depression even though they may not even be based in reality,” Chopik says.

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Nov 5, 2018

Pizza Hut unveils a zero-emissions delivery truck that makes pizzas on the go

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Pizza Hut has recently unveiled a full-size delivery truck with an automatic pizza-making factory in the truck bed, complete with computer-guided robotic arms.

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Nov 5, 2018

Peak performance: new stellarator experiments show promising results

Posted by in category: supercomputing

Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That’s exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device, funded by the German federal and state governments and the European Union, is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. The new experiment’s goal is to contain a super-heated gas, called plasma, in a donut-shaped vessel using magnets that twist their way around the donut.

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Nov 5, 2018

Quantum Human Biology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, quantum physics

Expert Panel Host: Dr Brian Clement
Conference Held at Adelphi University 2013.
(A podcast version of this video is available on iTunes.)

• Brian Clement — Learn how to transform your lifestyle from toxic and self-destructive to healthful and self-affirming, and experience renewed energy and vitality that will last a lifetime.

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Nov 5, 2018

Researchers Discover New Type of Lung Cell

Posted by in category: futurism

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Nov 5, 2018

Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

The firm will pit its Bristlecone quantum processor against a classical supercomputer early next year and see which comes out on top.

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