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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the centre of your visual field or all the words surrounding it?
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Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
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Meet The 'King' of a Toxic Underground Ecosystem Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
The Movile cave in southeast Romania wouldn't be top of your holiday destination list: no light gets down to it, the air is thick with poisonous gases, and it was cut off from the outside world for around 5.5 million years before its accidental dis
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
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Will The New Coronavirus Mutation Affect The Vaccine? Here's What You Need to Know
The emergence of a new variant of coronavirus has sparked renewed interest in the part of the virus known as the spike protein.
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
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This Brain-Bending 3D Staircase Just Won Best Illusion of The Year For 2020
It's been one heck of a year, but we're on the home stretch. Now, let's celebrate by looking at something very strange that seems to make no sense whatsoever to my poor befuddled brain.
The Year in Physics
Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time in a great Video from Quantamagazine,
"...By now you’ve probably heard the original quarantine-genius story: Isaac Newton, having fled the plague, revolutionized mathematics and reinvented physics. In a pandemic-afflicted year like 2020, it’s natural to hope for some parallel silver lining. Maybe another prodigy’s ideas are being given the time and space to gestate, and who knows what wonders await...."
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Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time in a great Video from Quantamagazine,
"...By now you’ve probably heard the original quarantine-genius story: Isaac Newton, having fled the plague, revolutionized mathematics and reinvented physics. In a pandemic-afflicted year like 2020, it’s natural to hope for some parallel silver lining. Maybe another prodigy’s ideas are being given the time and space to gestate, and who knows what wonders await...."
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2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery.
00:00 Black Hole Paradox: Here’s an extremely brief version…
00:00 Black Hole Paradox: Here’s an extremely brief version…
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The Cost of Visiting Earth May Be Too Astronomical For Aliens
In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
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Think Your Metabolism Is Slow? Here's What Affects How Many Calories You Burn Daily
It's a common dieter's lament: "Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I'm never going to lose any weight."
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
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These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
The way things behave in microgravity may seem obvious to us now, after humans have been venturing into space for over 50 years.
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These 10 Amazing Physics Stories Were Massive News in 2020
Let's admit it: It's been a pretty rough year for our neck of the Solar System. But it's been a great year for scientists studying more distant reaches of the Universe. From a colossal explosion to mystery burps deciphered, here were some of the to
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
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People With This Rare Brain Condition Can't 'Count Sheep' in Their Mind
When falling asleep, it's not unusual to imagine a calm, provincial scene, like a flock of sheep jumping over a fence.
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
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Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun?
The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing.
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Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
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Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
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Researchers Developed AI That Tells Apart True Conspiracies From Conspiracy Theories
The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there.
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Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action
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Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action
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Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action
Seeing our world through the eyes of a migratory bird would be a rather spooky experience. Something about their visual system allows them to 'see' our planet's magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics, and biochemistry that helps them nav
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NASA 2021: Let's Go to the Moon
Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a new rover on Mars, and launching the James Webb Space Telescope into space, expanding our ability to see deep into the universe, are just a few of the things NASA has…
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Scientists Discover a New Type of Chemical Bond, And It's Surprisingly Strong
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Scientists Discover a New Type of Chemical Bond, And It's Surprisingly Strong
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Scientists Discover a New Type of Chemical Bond, And It's Surprisingly Strong
Scientists have recently discovered a totally new type of chemical bond – and it's way stronger than it has any right to be.
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In First-of-Its-Kind Discovery, Scientists Confirm Bacteria Have a 24-Hour Body Clock
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In First-of-Its-Kind Discovery, Scientists Confirm Bacteria Have a 24-Hour Body Clock
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In First-of-Its-Kind Discovery, Scientists Confirm Bacteria Have a 24-Hour Body Clock
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, scientists have found that a species of non-photosynthetic bacteria are regulated by the same circadian rhythms that hold sway over so many other life-forms.
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The Curious Strength of a Sea Sponge’s Glass Skeleton
A glass sponge found deep in the Pacific shows a remarkable ability to withstand compression and bending, on top of the sponge’s other unusual properties.
In 1841, the English biologist Richard Owen marveled at the intricate skeleton of a new sea sponge species found near the Philippines. It resembled “a delicate cornucopia,” he wrote, one woven from “stiff, glistening, elastic threads, resembling the finest hairs of spun glass.” The skeleton is indeed made of glass, which the animal, Euplectella aspergillum — nicknamed “Venus’ flower basket,” — creates using acid extracted from seawater.
Scientists still marvel at this sponge 180 years later. Its notable properties include stunning longevity — some glass sponges are thought to live many thousands of years, placing them among the longest-lived animals — and the ability to channel light through its silica strands in the manner of fiber optics.
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A glass sponge found deep in the Pacific shows a remarkable ability to withstand compression and bending, on top of the sponge’s other unusual properties.
In 1841, the English biologist Richard Owen marveled at the intricate skeleton of a new sea sponge species found near the Philippines. It resembled “a delicate cornucopia,” he wrote, one woven from “stiff, glistening, elastic threads, resembling the finest hairs of spun glass.” The skeleton is indeed made of glass, which the animal, Euplectella aspergillum — nicknamed “Venus’ flower basket,” — creates using acid extracted from seawater.
Scientists still marvel at this sponge 180 years later. Its notable properties include stunning longevity — some glass sponges are thought to live many thousands of years, placing them among the longest-lived animals — and the ability to channel light through its silica strands in the manner of fiber optics.
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Astronomers Have Discovered an Alien Planet With Three Suns
To us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy have at least one companion star. Now, in a system 1,800 light-years away, astronomers have finally confirmed a
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Traces of a Mysterious Particle Predicted Decades Ago May Have Been Detected
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Traces of a Mysterious Particle Predicted Decades Ago May Have Been Detected
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Traces of a Mysterious Particle Predicted Decades Ago May Have Been Detected
Evidence of a long-sought hypothetical particle could have been hiding in plain (X-ray) sight all this time.
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Why Do Breastfed Babies Have Healthier Immune Systems? There's a New Explanation
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Why Do Breastfed Babies Have Healthier Immune Systems? There's a New Explanation
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Why Do Breastfed Babies Have Healthier Immune Systems? There's a New Explanation
From the moment we're born, our body develops a delicate protective coating made entirely of microbes.