When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, sharing information rather than…
Category: 7. Science
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Underwater Antarctic earthquakes fuel explosions of surface life
Deep beneath the waves, the ocean floor is anything but quiet. Plates grind, rocks crack, and heat escapes.
For decades, scientists thought those deep movements stayed deep, locked far below the surface where sunlight never reaches. That…
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Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey – Nature
- Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey Nature
- Historian Finds Scribbles in 500-Year-Old Book, Showing Galileo Galilei’s Slow and Steady Rejection of the Geocentric World ZME Science
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Tiny clump of moss helped solve a shocking cemetery crime
In 2009, investigators uncovered a disturbing scandal at a cemetery outside Chicago. Employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were accused of digging up older graves, relocating the remains to other areas within the cemetery, and then…
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New Giant Mosasaur Species Discovered in Morocco
Paleontologists have identified a new, giant species of the mosasaur genus Pluridens from the Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits of Morocco. Named Pluridens imelaki, the species belonged to a group of relatively slender-jawed mosasaurs and may…
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Scientists say most of what you do each day happens on autopilot
A new study by researchers from the University of Surrey, the University of South Carolina, and Central Queensland University suggests that much of what we do each day is guided by habit rather than deliberate decision making.
The research,…
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Scientists discover tiny ocean fungus that kills toxic algae
Researchers at Yokohama National University in Japan have identified a previously unknown species of marine fungus capable of killing harmful algae that form toxic blooms.
The organism, named Algophthora mediterranea, is a microscopic chytrid…
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Scientists recreate lightning in the lab without storm clouds
Lightning has always felt like one of those things that only nature can pull off: miles-wide storm clouds, crazy voltages, and sudden flashes that are still hard to predict.
But a new theoretical study suggests something wild: lightning-like…
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Will Proba-3 phone home? European solar-eclipse satellite goes dark
Europe has lost contact with one of its two Proba-3 spacecraft, after an anomaly caused the vehicle to lose orientation.
The European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Proba-3 mission launched to Earth orbit from India in December 2024. Proba-3 consists of…
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