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Seeing the Brain…With Diapers (What?!)
Yes, you read that right. Diapers. They’re helping us understand one of the most complicated systems of the body!
Scientists at MIT have discovered a new way of taking a deeper look into the brain using the absorbent material found in diapers! Take a look at this awesome video from PBS NOVA…
Yes, you read that right. Diapers. They’re helping us understand one of the most complicated systems of the body!
Scientists at MIT have discovered a new way of taking a deeper look into the brain using the absorbent material found in diapers! Take a look at this awesome video from PBS NOVA…
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We Might Finally Know Why Nacre Is So Incredibly Tough
Few composite materials forged by nature are as tough as mother-of-pearl, or nacre. Now, scientists have finally figured out just how the minuscule layers of this pearlescent substance make it so strong.
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Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than We Thought, Creating a 'Crisis in Cosmology'
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Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than We Thought, Creating a 'Crisis in Cosmology'
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Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than We Thought, Creating a 'Crisis in Cosmology'
The Universe is expanding much faster than scientists predicted, and nobody knows why.
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New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Faster
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New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Faster
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New Neural Network Could Solve The Three-Body Problem 100 Million Times Faster
The three-body problem, one of the most notoriously complex calculations in physics, may have met its match in artificial intelligence: a new neural network promises to find solutions up to 100 million times faster than existing techniques.
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Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here's Why
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Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here's Why
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Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here's Why
Putting your pregnancy on pause until the time is right to give birth sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but for many mammals what's known as "embryonic diapause" is an essential part of raising their young.
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Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
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Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
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Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
What started as a meme is now an international movement toward reforestation.
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New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
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New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
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New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
To this day, the Khmer Empire is remembered for its magnificent capital Angkor, but the legendary Southeast Asian empire moved its seat of power around quite a bit, sometimes with uncertain results.
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Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
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Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
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Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
A team of scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto have laid out the blueprints for a "quantum battery" that never loses its charge.
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Breathtaking Image Shows Clouds on Jupiter Soaring Above Its Swirling Atmosphere
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Breathtaking Image Shows Clouds on Jupiter Soaring Above Its Swirling Atmosphere
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Breathtaking Image Shows Clouds on Jupiter Soaring Above Its Swirling Atmosphere
Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter's clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right center of this image are much higher than the surrounding clouds.
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It's Official: Voyager 2 Has Left Our Solar System And Is Sailing in Interstellar Space
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It's Official: Voyager 2 Has Left Our Solar System And Is Sailing in Interstellar Space
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It's Official: Voyager 2 Has Left Our Solar System And Is Sailing in Interstellar Space
Voyager 2 has left the Solar System. After making a careful analysis of the data, scientists have confirmed it: like Voyager 1 before it, the little space probe is now out beyond the heliopause, and heading deeper into the vast unknown of interstel
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Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way
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Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way
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Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way
Even in a hopeless place, ants will find a way. No food, no light, no escape? No problem.
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For The First Time, Astronomers Witness Colossal Winds Blowing Out of a Distant Galaxy
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For The First Time, Astronomers Witness Colossal Winds Blowing Out of a Distant Galaxy
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For The First Time, Astronomers Witness Colossal Winds Blowing Out of a Distant Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the massive outflow of gas extending hundreds of thousands of light-years from a galaxy.
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NASA Scientist Shows Dinosaurs Roamed Earth on The Other Side of The Milky Way
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NASA Scientist Shows Dinosaurs Roamed Earth on The Other Side of The Milky Way
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NASA Scientist Shows Dinosaurs Roamed Earth on The Other Side of The Milky Way
When dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the planet was on a completely different side of the galaxy.
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New 'Artificial Leaf' Uses Sunlight to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
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New 'Artificial Leaf' Uses Sunlight to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
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New 'Artificial Leaf' Uses Sunlight to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
There is no doubt that climate change is a very serious (and worsening) problem. According to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), even if all the industrialized nations of the world became carbon neutral overnig
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Intense Gravity Makes One Galaxy Appear in The Sky at Least 12 Times
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Intense Gravity Makes One Galaxy Appear in The Sky at Least 12 Times
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Intense Gravity Makes One Galaxy Appear in The Sky at Least 12 Times
The smears of light you can see arcing across a new Hubble photo aren't strange artefacts or smudges on the space telescope's lens. Rather, they're the light of a galaxy 11 billion light-years away, distorted and replicated by gravity in the foregr
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Incredibly Rare 'Mouse Deer' Spotted in Vietnam After Vanishing For Almost 30 Years
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Incredibly Rare 'Mouse Deer' Spotted in Vietnam After Vanishing For Almost 30 Years
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Incredibly Rare 'Mouse Deer' Spotted in Vietnam After Vanishing For Almost 30 Years
A very rare species of small, deer-like animal thought to be on the verge of extinction has been spotted in the northwestern jungle of Vietnam for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Something Strange And Unseen Seems to Be Causing Distant Galaxies to Synchronise
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Something Strange And Unseen Seems to Be Causing Distant Galaxies to Synchronise
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Something Strange And Unseen Seems to Be Causing Distant Galaxies to Synchronise
Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by an unseen network of massive intergalactic structures, which force them to synchronize in ways that can't be explained by existing astrophysics, Vice reports. The discoveries could force
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Japan's Space Probe Is Returning to Earth With an Actual Piece of Asteroid
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Japan's Space Probe Is Returning to Earth With an Actual Piece of Asteroid
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Japan's Space Probe Is Returning to Earth With an Actual Piece of Asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe will leave its orbit around a distant asteroid and head for Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented mission, carrying samples that could shed light on the origins of the Solar System.
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Major Report Says Drug-Resistant Superbugs Are Already Killing More People Than Feared
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Major Report Says Drug-Resistant Superbugs Are Already Killing More People Than Feared
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Major Report Says Drug-Resistant Superbugs Are Already Killing More People Than Feared
Drug-resistant germs sicken about 3 million people every year in the United States and kill about 35,000, representing a much larger public health threat than previously understood, according to a long-awaited report released Wednesday by
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Physicists Detect Strange Electron Pairs Acting as a Brand New State of Matter
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Physicists Detect Strange Electron Pairs Acting as a Brand New State of Matter
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Physicists Detect Strange Electron Pairs Acting as a Brand New State of Matter
Under the right circumstances, individual electrons can form partnerships that allow them to zip effortlessly through special materials called superconductors - letting them conduct electrical current without resistance.