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Astronauts Capture Haunting Video of Hurricane Florence Making Landfall From Space
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Astronauts Capture Haunting Video of Hurricane Florence Making Landfall From Space
Hurricane Florence made landfall this morning near Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina, causing huge storm surges, heavy winds, strong winds, and intense flooding.
Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes
Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves.
ntelligence is not a quality to attribute lightly to microbes. There is no reason to think that bacteria, slime molds and similar single-cell forms of life have awareness, understanding or other capacities implicit in real intellect. But particularly when these cells commune in great numbers, their startling collective talents for solving problems and controlling their environment emerge. Those behaviors may be genetically encoded into these cells by billions of years of evolution, but in that sense the cells are not so different from robots programmed to respond in sophisticated ways to their environment. If we can speak of artificial intelligence for the latter, perhaps it’s not too outrageous to refer to the underappreciated cellular intelligence of the former.
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Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves.
ntelligence is not a quality to attribute lightly to microbes. There is no reason to think that bacteria, slime molds and similar single-cell forms of life have awareness, understanding or other capacities implicit in real intellect. But particularly when these cells commune in great numbers, their startling collective talents for solving problems and controlling their environment emerge. Those behaviors may be genetically encoded into these cells by billions of years of evolution, but in that sense the cells are not so different from robots programmed to respond in sophisticated ways to their environment. If we can speak of artificial intelligence for the latter, perhaps it’s not too outrageous to refer to the underappreciated cellular intelligence of the former.
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NASA Study Provides New Hope That Life Could Survive on Proxima B, Our Closest Known Exoplanet
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NASA Study Provides New Hope That Life Could Survive on Proxima B, Our Closest Known Exoplanet
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NASA Study Provides New Hope That Life Could Survive on Proxima B, Our Closest Known Exoplanet
In of August of 2016, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet around Proxima Centauri – the closest star to our Solar System.
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Astronomers Just Found a Planet Where Star Trek's Vulcan Was Predicted to Exist
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Astronomers Just Found a Planet Where Star Trek's Vulcan Was Predicted to Exist
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Astronomers Just Found a Planet Where Star Trek's Vulcan Was Predicted to Exist
So far, astronomers have identified thousands of exoplanets out there beyond the reaches of the Solar System, but only a rare few are the stuff of legend. Such is the case with an Earth-like exoplanet, found orbiting a star called 40 Eridani A - St
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Three of The World's Greatest Minds Just Published a New Take on The Famous Fermi Paradox
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Three of The World's Greatest Minds Just Published a New Take on The Famous Fermi Paradox
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Three of The World's Greatest Minds Just Published a New Take on The Famous Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox remains a stumbling block when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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This Eerie Creature Was Just Officially Confirmed as The World's Earliest Known Animal
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This Eerie Creature Was Just Officially Confirmed as The World's Earliest Known Animal
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This Eerie Creature Was Just Officially Confirmed as The World's Earliest Known Animal
The evidence is in. A mysterious creature that lived on Earth over half a billion years ago has now been proven an animal. A fossil from 558 million years ago was so well preserved, it still had fat molecules, conclusively laying to rest the debate
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NASA Just Captured Data on an Incredibly Rare Type of Cloud in Earth's Atmosphere
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NASA Just Captured Data on an Incredibly Rare Type of Cloud in Earth's Atmosphere
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NASA Just Captured Data on an Incredibly Rare Type of Cloud in Earth's Atmosphere
In certain times of the year, at the polar regions of Earth, just after the Sun has set, sometimes you can see electric-blue clouds high up in the sky.
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Scientists Just Created a Magnetic Field That Takes Us Closer Than Ever Before to Harnessing Nuclear Fusion
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Scientists Just Created a Magnetic Field That Takes Us Closer Than Ever Before to Harnessing Nuclear Fusion
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Scientists Just Created a Magnetic Field That Takes Us Closer Than Ever Before to Harnessing Nuclear Fusion
Inexpensive clean energy sounds like a pipe dream. Scientists have long thought that nuclear fusion, the type of reaction that powers stars like the Sun, could be one way to make it happen, but the reaction has been too difficult to maintain.
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Japanese Scientists Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Creating Human Babies From Blood Cells
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Japanese Scientists Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Creating Human Babies From Blood Cells
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Japanese Scientists Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Creating Human Babies From Blood Cells
Scientists in Japan made progress recently in the quest to combat infertility, creating the precursor to a human egg cell in a dish from nothing but a woman's blood cells.
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It's Official, Australia Has Had Its First Recorded Marine Animal Extinction
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It's Official, Australia Has Had Its First Recorded Marine Animal Extinction
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It's Official, Australia Has Had Its First Recorded Marine Animal Extinction
We see the surface of the sea: the rock pools, the waves, the horizon. But there is so much more going on underneath, hidden from view.
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NASA Just Released New Data on Why Earth Wobbles as It Spins on Its Axis
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NASA Just Released New Data on Why Earth Wobbles as It Spins on Its Axis
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NASA Just Released New Data on Why Earth Wobbles as It Spins on Its Axis
NASA scientists have combined data on our planet's rotation with a number of sophisticated models to find that melting ice is a major cause of a strange drift in our planet's wobbling spin.
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'Oumuamua Came From Outside The Solar System. Astronomers Just Got Closer to Finding Its Source
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'Oumuamua Came From Outside The Solar System. Astronomers Just Got Closer to Finding Its Source
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'Oumuamua Came From Outside The Solar System. Astronomers Just Got Closer to Finding Its Source
After a Hawaiian telescope spotted an object called 'Oumuamua flying through space in October 2017, astronomers realised it was weird.
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Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That "Shouldn't Exist"
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Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That "Shouldn't Exist"
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Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That "Shouldn't Exist"
Roughly 24,000 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Cassiopeia, is a dead star that shouldn't exist. Not, that is, according to current theory. The neutron star, accreting material from a much larger binary companion, is spewing out
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Chilling Video Shows The Moment a Tsunami Tore Through an Indonesia Island Earlier Today
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Chilling Video Shows The Moment a Tsunami Tore Through an Indonesia Island Earlier Today
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Chilling Video Shows The Moment a Tsunami Tore Through an Indonesia Island Earlier Today
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a 1.8-metre (6-foot) tsunami.
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It's Official, at Last: This Is The Biggest Bird That's Ever Lived
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It's Official, at Last: This Is The Biggest Bird That's Ever Lived
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It's Official, at Last: This Is The Biggest Bird That's Ever Lived
There's been more scientific debate over the title of the world's biggest bird than you might have realised, with many candidates coming and going down the years as new discoveries and new research has come to light.
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It's Official: NASA Just Announced a Bold 3-Part Plan to Send Humans to The Moon And Mars
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It's Official: NASA Just Announced a Bold 3-Part Plan to Send Humans to The Moon And Mars
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It's Official: NASA Just Announced a Bold 3-Part Plan to Send Humans to The Moon And Mars
NASA's got a whole new plan. It wants boots on the Moon in 10 years and on Mars in 20. Give or take.
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Was Just Awarded For 'Tools Made of Light'
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Was Just Awarded For 'Tools Made of Light'
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Was Just Awarded For 'Tools Made of Light'
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their pioneering work to turn lasers into powerful tools.
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Astronauts Are Taking Hurricane Florence Photos From The ISS, And They're Truly Chilling
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Astronauts Are Taking Hurricane Florence Photos From The ISS, And They're Truly Chilling
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Astronauts Are Taking Hurricane Florence Photos From The ISS, And They're Truly Chilling
Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut orbiting Earth from 250 miles (402 kilometres) up, has a warning for humans on the planet below him.
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We've Just Found The Source of Some of The Most Powerful Light Beams Ever Detected
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We've Just Found The Source of Some of The Most Powerful Light Beams Ever Detected
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We've Just Found The Source of Some of The Most Powerful Light Beams Ever Detected
Matter ejected from a spinning disc of doom surrounding a black hole a mere 15,000 light years away has produced some of the most energetic rays of light ever witnessed from an object of its kind.
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Wind Farms Could Have a Local Climate Warming Effect, Says Harvard Study
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Wind Farms Could Have a Local Climate Warming Effect, Says Harvard Study
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Wind Farms Could Have a Local Climate Warming Effect, Says Harvard Study
If the world is going to avoid catastrophic climate change, we need to stop consuming fossil fuels and start getting power from renewable energy sources – including geothermal energy, biofuels, hydropower, solar farms, and wind – as soon as pos