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Mind-Blowing Images From the Field of Neuroscience
Although these images look as though they were created by an artist, they were actually taken by scientists trying to learn more about the human nervous system. These stunning images were curated by The New York Times and are some of the very latest works from the field of neuroscience — the study of the…
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These space launches are planned for 2024 | DW News – DW News
These space launches are planned for 2024 | DW News DW News NASA’s most high-risk endeavor in decades and other boundary-pushing space missions planned for 2024 CNN International fleet of spacecraft is heading to the moon in 2024 New Scientist 10 exhilarating spaceflight missions to watch in 2024 Space.com Two Space Stories In 2024 Will Determine The Future Of…
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Brain boffins think they’ve found the data format we use to store images as memories • The Register
Scientists say they have discovered the neural coding system our brains use to transform images into memories, suggesting we’re all visual thinkers deep down. The long-held belief that our grey matter turns visual signals into a non-visual form of data to encode as memories is likely false, according to a paper by folks at Dartmouth…
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12 hours on Mars: What NASA cameras captured during a search mission on the red planet
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} Newly released images from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover show a 12-hour time-lapse on the red planet from sunrise to sunset. NASA’s Curiosity rover was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012. Since then, the rover has traveled nearly 20 miles…
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NASA Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter’s moon Io like never before in spectacular new images
During its 57th flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft came closer to the planet’s moon Io than any other mission has in the last two decades. Passing within around 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, Juno was able to capture stunningly detailed…
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World’s Second Rarest Primate Caught On Film Playing In The Trees
Footage of the world’s second rarest primate, the cao-vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) has been recorded in a forest in Vietnam. Two adults and one younger gibbon can be observed playing together in the leafy canopy before the infant tumbles through the trees. The species exhibits sexual dimorphism where the males are black and the females…
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Heart-stopping moment North Carolina scientist Fred Boyce almost loses an arm while trying to wrestle 250lb gator with a TOWEL goes viral again
By Laura Parnaby For Dailymail.Com 17:27 02 Jan 2024, updated 18:14 02 Jan 2024 Share or comment on this article: The heart-stopping moment a ginormous gator took a bite out of an elderly man’s arm after he tried to wrestle it with a towel has gone viral on social media. DailyMail.com identified the man as Fred…
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Heart-stopping moment North Carolina scientist Fred Boyce almost loses an arm while trying to wrestle 250lb gator with a TOWEL goes viral again – as social media jokes man looks like BIDEN
The heart-stopping moment a ginormous gator took a bite out of an elderly man’s arm after he tried to wrestle it with a towel has gone viral on social media. DailyMail.com identified the man as Fred Boyce, a seasoned herpetologist from North Carolina, when the clip was first circulated in May 2012. But his encounter with…
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We May Have Been Looking For The Wrong Thing In The Search For Life
If we want to find the necessary conditions for life on the surface of another planet, let alone life itself, we should stop hoping for carbon in its atmosphere, a new paper argues. Instead, it is an absence, or at least shortage, of atmospheric carbon that could be the sign we’re getting close. All life…
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Scientists Have Detected Something Migrating Under Arctic Ice. Now They’re Worried About What May Happen If It Escapes.
Deep beneath arctic permafrost on a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, scientists have detected the migration of natural gases that they say could potentially impact the environment if they escape into the atmosphere. Under Svalbard’s frozen surface, there are an estimated several million cubic meters of trapped methane. Based on new findings, scientists say…