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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
Early Earth grew up in a chaotic time. As our planet tried to find its place in a relatively young Solar System about 4.5 billion years ago, it was under constant attack from waves of comets, whizzing asteroids, and even some failed proto-planets.
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
Between its raging heat and intense gravity, the region really close to the Sun is a pretty hazardous place. And that has been spectacularly demonstrated in a new video of a comet, like the legendary Icarus, falling to its doom when it veered a lit
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the Moon in 1969, they helped to cement the idea of a "moonshot" – a goal or achievement that challenges what we thought was possible.
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
It's not like the one in your car, but a team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have built what they claim is the world's smallest engine. The engine is the size of a single calcium ion - about ten billion times smaller than an automobile eng
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That's more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years.
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NASA Images Show Just How Much Carbon Monoxide Is Coming Off The Burning Amazon
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NASA Images Show Just How Much Carbon Monoxide Is Coming Off The Burning Amazon
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NASA Images Show Just How Much Carbon Monoxide Is Coming Off The Burning Amazon
A NASA satellite captured harrowing images of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere due to the wildfires that continue to rage in the Amazon rainforest.
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Vaping Just Once Could Immediately Change Your Blood Vessels, Even Without Nicotine
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Vaping Just Once Could Immediately Change Your Blood Vessels, Even Without Nicotine
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Vaping Just Once Could Immediately Change Your Blood Vessels, Even Without Nicotine
For more than a decade, vaping has been sold as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. But that doesn't mean puffing on an e-cigarette is not without its harms.
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NASA Administrator Says Pluto Is Still a Planet, And Things Are Getting Heated
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NASA Administrator Says Pluto Is Still a Planet, And Things Are Getting Heated
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NASA Administrator Says Pluto Is Still a Planet, And Things Are Getting Heated
Saturday 24 August 2019 marked a vexing anniversary for planetary scientists. It was 13 years to the day that Pluto's official definition changed - what was once numbered among the planets of the Solar System was now but a humble dwarf planet.
A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision
Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible
Information from the eye passes through a bottleneck before it gets to the brain’s visual cortex, which heavily processes the sparse signal.
This is the great mystery of human vision: Vivid pictures of the world appear before our mind’s eye, yet the brain’s visual system receives very little information from the world itself. Much of what we “see” we conjure in our heads.
“A lot of the things you think you see you’re actually making up,” said Lai-Sang Young, a mathematician at New York University. “You don’t actually see them.”
Yet the brain must be doing a pretty good job of inventing the visual world, since we don’t routinely bump into doors. Unfortunately, studying anatomy alone doesn’t reveal how the brain makes these images up any more than staring at a car engine would allow you to decipher the laws of thermodynamics.
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Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible
Information from the eye passes through a bottleneck before it gets to the brain’s visual cortex, which heavily processes the sparse signal.
This is the great mystery of human vision: Vivid pictures of the world appear before our mind’s eye, yet the brain’s visual system receives very little information from the world itself. Much of what we “see” we conjure in our heads.
“A lot of the things you think you see you’re actually making up,” said Lai-Sang Young, a mathematician at New York University. “You don’t actually see them.”
Yet the brain must be doing a pretty good job of inventing the visual world, since we don’t routinely bump into doors. Unfortunately, studying anatomy alone doesn’t reveal how the brain makes these images up any more than staring at a car engine would allow you to decipher the laws of thermodynamics.
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SpaceX's Experimental Mars Rocket 'Starhopper' Just Passed Its Last Test
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SpaceX's Experimental Mars Rocket 'Starhopper' Just Passed Its Last Test
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SpaceX's Experimental Mars Rocket 'Starhopper' Just Passed Its Last Test
After what SpaceX's founder Elon Musk called an "embarrassing" glitch with Starhopper, an experimental rocket ship, the company pulled off an impressive launch and landing on Tuesday.
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Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and l-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in various foods and sold as a dietary supplement. It is used to prevent and treat scurvy.
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Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and l-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in various foods and sold as a dietary supplement. It is used to prevent and treat scurvy.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Fully Assembled, And It Looks Epic
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Fully Assembled, And It Looks Epic
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Fully Assembled, And It Looks Epic
Development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been beleaguered by delays since the project started all the way back in 1996. But a major milestone has brought the finale closer: the glorious machine has now been fully assembled for the f
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Physicists Create a Device That Can 'Forget' Memories, Just Like a Human Brain
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Physicists Create a Device That Can 'Forget' Memories, Just Like a Human Brain
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Physicists Create a Device That Can 'Forget' Memories, Just Like a Human Brain
The brain is the ultimate computing machine, so it's no wonder researchers are keen to try and emulate it. Now, new research has taken an intriguing step in that direction - a device that's able to 'forget' memories, just like our brains do.
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In a Totally Unexpected Finding, Water Has Spontaneously Produced Hydrogen Peroxide
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In a Totally Unexpected Finding, Water Has Spontaneously Produced Hydrogen Peroxide
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In a Totally Unexpected Finding, Water Has Spontaneously Produced Hydrogen Peroxide
Water is a weird molecule, and no matter how many strange things about it we discover, it seems like there are always more unexpected surprises waiting around the corner – even after centuries of researching it.
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China's Lunar Rover Finds a 'Gel-Like' Substance on The Far Side of The Moon
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China's Lunar Rover Finds a 'Gel-Like' Substance on The Far Side of The Moon
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China's Lunar Rover Finds a 'Gel-Like' Substance on The Far Side of The Moon
Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 has rolled over a strange mystery on the far side of the Moon. At the bottom of a small, recent impact crater, the rover found a shiny unknown substance the Chinese space agency described as a "gel with a mysterious lustr
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Eerie Photos Show The Peaceful Calm Right in The Eye of Hurricane Dorian
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Eerie Photos Show The Peaceful Calm Right in The Eye of Hurricane Dorian
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Eerie Photos Show The Peaceful Calm Right in The Eye of Hurricane Dorian
An eerily calm photo taken Sunday shows the eye of Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful storms ever seen in the Atlantic.
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Scientists Have Developed a Genius Method That Actually Regenerates Tooth Enamel
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Scientists Have Developed a Genius Method That Actually Regenerates Tooth Enamel
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Scientists Have Developed a Genius Method That Actually Regenerates Tooth Enamel
It's the hardest substance in the human body, and it's irreplaceable. Around the world, billions are affected by tooth decay stemming from the loss of tooth enamel, but new research offers fresh hope to end this global problem.
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Chilling Photos Taken From Space Reveal The True Scope of Hurricane Dorian
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Chilling Photos Taken From Space Reveal The True Scope of Hurricane Dorian
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Chilling Photos Taken From Space Reveal The True Scope of Hurricane Dorian
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are well above the path of Hurricane Dorian, but that isn't stopping them from keeping a close eye on the storm - and sharing their unique vantage point with the rest of the world.