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Unique Flow of Information Identified in The Human Brain : ScienceAlert
Information doesn’t make its way around our brains in the same way as it does in the brains of other animals, according to a new study, and it could teach us something important about the way our species has evolved. A team led by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)…
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From The Moon’s South Pole To An Ice-Covered Ocean World, Several Exciting Space Missions Are Slated For Launch In 2024
The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon. The…
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AI Detects Unusual Signal Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece : ScienceAlert
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: it wasn’t actually painted by Raphael. The face in question belongs to St Joseph, seen in the top left of the painting known…
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Switching Off From Work Has Never Been Harder, Or More Necessary. Here’s How To Do It
In the hit dystopian TV series Severance, employees at biotech corporation Lumon Industries find it easy to separate work and home life. A computer chip is inserted in their brains to act as a “mindwipe”. They leave all thoughts of home behind while at work, and completely forget about their work when at home. While the…
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Why Metalenses Are Set To Revolutionize Smartphones
One of the more expensive parts of the cameras built-in to smartphones is the lens system. That’s because lenses have to be made in an entirely different way to the electronic components that make up the rest of the phone. In recent years, physicists have hoped to change this with a new type of “metalens”…
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Talking Buttons Try to Break the Pet-Human Language Barrier
Talking pets have been the darlings of social media recently. The trend started after Christina Hunger, a speech pathologist, made headlines when she adapted techniques she used with children to teach her dog, Stella, to communicate. Stella, and now hundreds of dogs and cats, use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to “talk” with the humans…
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6 Ways to Keep Your Dog Stress-Free During the Holidays
Just like people, dogs are susceptible to stress during the holidays. When things are hectic, dogs can be negatively impacted by the changes. Here are some situations that are potentially troubling for dogs during the holidays. But with some basic planning and care, your dog can remain happy and enjoy the holidays, along with the…
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The Top Ten Ocean Stories of 2023 | Science
This year was marked by many broken records in the ocean. Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images This year many ocean records were broken as unprecedented heat spread across the Caribbean Basin and as Antarctic peak sea ice dwindled to an all-time low. International cooperation regarding the ocean also ramped up, with countries coming…
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The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change
There’s no denying it: Farming had a rough year. Extreme weather spun up storms and floods, unseasonal freezes and baking heat waves, and prolonged parching droughts. In parts of the world in 2023, tomato plants didn’t flower, the peach crop never came in, and the price of olive oil soared. To be a farmer right…
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Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
The data scientist and author Hannah Ritchie expands on these examples in her upcoming book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Future. Everything comes with a greenhouse gas footprint: watching Netflix, charging our phones, having a cup of tea. It’s no wonder that we…