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This Fake "God Helmet" Can Induce Mystical Experiences in People
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This Fake "God Helmet" Can Induce Mystical Experiences in People
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This Fake "God Helmet" Can Induce Mystical Experiences in People
A skateboarding helmet with nonfunctional wires attached has nevertheless proven to have a powerful placebo effect - especially among people who describe themselves as spiritual.
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MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections
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MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections
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MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections
For those working in the field of advanced artificial intelligence, getting a computer to simulate brain activity is a gargantuan task, but it may be easier to manage if the hardware is designed more like brain hardware to start with.
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These Star Wars-Like 3D Projections Are More Epic Than Any Hologram You've Ever Seen
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These Star Wars-Like 3D Projections Are More Epic Than Any Hologram You've Ever Seen
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These Star Wars-Like 3D Projections Are More Epic Than Any Hologram You've Ever Seen
Holograms are pretty cool, sure. But they're still just two-dimensional projections that hover in the air, and as soon as you step to the side, the magic disappears, revealing how flat the thing really is.
This Might Be The Strongest And Lightest Material on Earth
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This Might Be The Strongest And Lightest Material on Earth
For years, researchers have known that carbon, when arranged in a certain way, can be very strong. Case in point: graphene. Graphene, which was heretofore, the strongest material known to man, is made from an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms arranged…
The Complete Guide to 2018's Best Meteor Showers
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The Complete Guide to 2018's Best Meteor Showers
This year gets off to a relatively slow start when it comes to seeing the annual major meteor showers. The Quadrantids, one of the big three annual showers, are lost to the vagaries of the full Moon in early January. But the year's other two most active annual…
This NASA Probe Will Fly Closer to The Sun Than Anything Ever Before
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This NASA Probe Will Fly Closer to The Sun Than Anything Ever Before
Shortly after NASA was established in 1958, the nation's top scientists compiled a list of missions they thought the brand-new space agency should pursue. The proposals were heady, considering at that point only three satellites had ever been launched. Researchers…
Scientists Think They've Found a Way to Stop Allergic Reactions Before They Happen
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Scientists Think They've Found a Way to Stop Allergic Reactions Before They Happen
If you're one of the unlucky millions of people burdened by allergies, you know that sometimes there's only so much antihistamines can do to help. Researchers have been working to find more effective allergy treatments, and now they've discovered how a particular…
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Earth Went Strangely Quiet About 2 Billion Years Ago And We Don't Know Why
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Earth Went Strangely Quiet About 2 Billion Years Ago And We Don't Know Why
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Earth Went Strangely Quiet About 2 Billion Years Ago And We Don't Know Why
A new study has added evidence to the hypothesis that our planet experienced a lull in geology between 2.2 and 2.3 billion years ago, when not a lot went on as far as rock-forming processes go.
Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves
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Physicists Just Found a New Way to Bend a Fundamental Rule of Light Waves
One of the more well-known rules in physics is that light can only ever go one speed, so long as nothing stands in its way. But new research has found there could be an interesting exception to this rule, where the mixing of light waves could bring them to…
Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created
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Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created
Saying our Universe is a big place is a bit of an understatement. And with recent advances in our understanding of the effects of dark matter and black holes on the formation of galaxies, it's surprisingly dynamic. Keeping track of all of that material requires…
Scientists Are Drilling Holes in Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf to Explore The Ocean Beneath
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Scientists Are Drilling Holes in Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf to Explore The Ocean Beneath
Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf is the world's largest floating slab of ice: It's about the size of Spain, and nearly a kilometre (about 0.6 miles) thick. The ocean beneath, roughly the volume of the North Sea, is one of the most important but least understood…
Russian Cosmonauts Just Set an Accidental Spacewalk Record While Wrestling an ISS Antenna
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Russian Cosmonauts Just Set an Accidental Spacewalk Record While Wrestling an ISS Antenna
On February 2, a spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts on the ISS was supposed to be a regular six-and-a-half hour mission to replace an electronics box for a communications antenna. But not everything went as planned - which required extra time, and ultimately…
These Bacteria Digest Toxic Metals And Poop Out Tiny Gold Nuggets
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These Bacteria Digest Toxic Metals And Poop Out Tiny Gold Nuggets
No other life form on our planet has infiltrated every environment as successfully as the minuscule single cells of bacteria. Amongst their many roles in life on Earth, it turns out some of these microbes are also experts at purifying precious metals. An…
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Ehang’s passenger-carrying drones look insanely impressive in first test flights
Two years ago, Chinese drone maker Ehang came to CES in Las Vegas and promised to build a completely autonomous, passenger-carrying quadcopter that would revolutionize mobility. Many of us in the tech community chortled under our breath, wondering if such a thing was even possible, let alone advisable. Today, the company released footage of its first piloted test flights in China — and color us impressed: this thing is no joke.
Just take a look:
Two years ago, Chinese drone maker Ehang came to CES in Las Vegas and promised to build a completely autonomous, passenger-carrying quadcopter that would revolutionize mobility. Many of us in the tech community chortled under our breath, wondering if such a thing was even possible, let alone advisable. Today, the company released footage of its first piloted test flights in China — and color us impressed: this thing is no joke.
Just take a look:
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Falcon Heavy Test Flight
Following its first test launch, Falcon Heavy is now the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb)---a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers,…
Scientists Just Made 'Superionic Ice' That's Solid And Liquid at The Same Time
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Scientists Just Made 'Superionic Ice' That's Solid And Liquid at The Same Time
Scientists think they've finally discovered a totally new type of water ice called superionic water, water that is simultaneously a solid and a liquid, potentially teaching us much more about this most versatile of substances and leading to the development…
We Can Now Harvest Electricity From Earth's Heat Using Quantum Tunnelling
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We Can Now Harvest Electricity From Earth's Heat Using Quantum Tunnelling
Researchers have come up with a way we could harvest energy from Earth by turning excess infrared radiation and waste heat into electricity we can use. The concept involves the strange physics of quantum tunnelling, and key to the idea is a specially designed…