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Rogue Mystery Planet Crashed Into Uranus, Changing It Forever
The unknown planet that hit Uranus would have been about twice the size of Earth.. OUCH! via Science Alert: All the planets in the Solar System are more or less oriented the same as the Sun, with North and South pointed in the same direction. Not Uranus though. The blue planet’s north-south axis is tilted 98 degrees from the Sun’s … Continue reading
Eyes in the Back of the Head – The Brain May Perceive Objects Outside Field of View
Spatial representations of surroundings, including those outside the visual field, are crucial for guiding movement in a three-dimensional world. The visual system appears to provide sufficient information for movement despite our visual field being limited to the frontal region. However, this theory had not been scientifically tested until now. A group led by Professor Satoshi Shioiri from the Research Institute … Continue reading
A Giant Sarcophagus Has Been Discovered In Egypt
Archaeologists in Egypt have a hard question to answer: who is the colossal figure buried inside this massive sarcophagus? The discovery was made during an excavation in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria. Measuring a whopping 2.65 meters (8.7 feet) in length, the discovery is the largest granite sarcophagus ever found in the area, which is renowned for its ancient … Continue reading
Primate Specie in Panama May Have Entered the Stone Age
Is this is indeed evolution happening before our eyes? via unexplained-mysteries: Remarkable new footage shows a white-faced capuchin using a stone as a hammer to break open nuts to eat. The discovery was made by an international team of researchers who had set up camera traps around Panama’s Coiba National Park in an effort to capture the capuchins’ behavior on … Continue reading
Scientists Found A Way to Make An Object Invisible
This is very cool! via Science Alert: “Our work represents a breakthrough in the quest for invisibility cloaking.” Researchers from Montreal’s National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) just published a study in Optica detailing a new approach to invisibility cloaking. Their device, called a spectral invisibility cloak, is the first to manipulate the color (or frequency) of the light waves that interact with … Continue reading
Viewing This Color Makes You ‘Smarter’
I wonder if I look at combined colors if it could make me a genius, HMMM [clasps chin..looks up to the left] via PsyBlog: Seeing red makes people 31% better at detail-oriented tasks like recalling memories or proofreading, research finds. The colour blue, though, makes people more creative – doubling the number of creative ideas they produce. Professor Juliet Zhu, … Continue reading
The Average Human IQ Has Been Decreasing Since 1970
Some of what is said in this article is really questionable, for example linking intelligence to eating fish, absolutely misleading. via PsyBlog: Average human IQ has been dropping over the last few decades, new research concludes. Potential culprits are worsening nutrition (particularly eating less fish), poorer education and the rise of new technologies. The trend is surprising as in the … Continue reading
Scientist Find That Exoplanet Kepler-186f is Even More Like Earth Than We Thought
Life on Kepler-186f? via RT: Scientists have discovered Kepler-186f is even more like Earth than previously understood, and could be habitable. The planet appears to have seasons and a climate, thanks to its stable axial tilt. Kepler-186f is an exoplanet, meaning it’s located outside our solar system, 500 light years away. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology used simulations … Continue reading
AI Researchers Look to Create Frankenstein Cyborg by Putting Neanderthal Brains into Robots
Frankenstein is the timeless story of reanimating a dead body through the use of technology. And now a team of researchers in the US seem to be walking in the footsteps of Mary Shelley’s creation with a new experiment. Teams at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are experimenting with lumps of tissue taken from fossil bones of our … Continue reading
The Hunt for Where Life Began on Earth
NEARLY 4 billion years ago, the first life appeared on our planet. It would have looked unlike any life as we know it today, more basic even than bacterial cells – barely more than a few genetic molecules packaged up in some kind of a sac. Working out how this popped into existence is one of our greatest intellectual endeavours. … Continue reading
