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Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One. Did We Kill The Rest?
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Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One. Did We Kill The Rest?
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe's cold steppes.
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Physicists Create a Device That Mimics Human Synapses to 'Forget' Memories
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Physicists Create a Device That Mimics Human Synapses to 'Forget' Memories
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Physicists Create a Device That Mimics Human Synapses to 'Forget' Memories
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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Shaking Your Head to Get Water Out of Your Ears Could Cause Brain Damage
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Shaking Your Head to Get Water Out of Your Ears Could Cause Brain Damage
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Shaking Your Head to Get Water Out of Your Ears Could Cause Brain Damage
When water gets trapped inside your ear after swimming or a shower, it's an instinctive and understandable reaction to try to shake it free and remove the blockage.
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We Have Some Good News About The Life Expectancy of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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We Have Some Good News About The Life Expectancy of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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We Have Some Good News About The Life Expectancy of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Despite what you might have heard, Jupiter's Great Red Spot is probably not on the point of total disintegration.
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The Latest Breakthrough in Time Crystals Is a Structure That Needs No External Input
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The Latest Breakthrough in Time Crystals Is a Structure That Needs No External Input
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The Latest Breakthrough in Time Crystals Is a Structure That Needs No External Input
A newly theorised type of time crystal could revolutionise the potential of these fascinating structures. Unlike the time crystals that have been created to date, it would not require the application of an external stimulus to keep the atoms tickin
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An Adorable 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Has Been Found Extremely Well Preserved in Siberia
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An Adorable 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Has Been Found Extremely Well Preserved in Siberia
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An Adorable 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Has Been Found Extremely Well Preserved in Siberia
If you were just to look at his head - eyes closed, chin resting gently on the surface in front of him, with slightly outstretched paws - you might think the puppy were only sleeping.
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'Dopamine Fasting' Is Silicon Valley's Latest Trend. Here's What an Expert Has to Say
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'Dopamine Fasting' Is Silicon Valley's Latest Trend. Here's What an Expert Has to Say
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'Dopamine Fasting' Is Silicon Valley's Latest Trend. Here's What an Expert Has to Say
It's the latest fad in Silicon Valley. By reducing the brain's feel-good chemical known as dopamine – cutting back on things like food, sex, alcohol, social media and technology – followers believe that they can "reset" the brain to be more eff
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Baby Mammals in The Womb May Be Able to See More Than We Ever Thought Possible
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Baby Mammals in The Womb May Be Able to See More Than We Ever Thought Possible
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Baby Mammals in The Womb May Be Able to See More Than We Ever Thought Possible
When you opened your eyes for the very first time, the first thing you 'saw' was light. It was your mother's second trimester, and you were still snuggled up inside her womb.
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Astronomers Have Detected a Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
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Astronomers Have Detected a Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
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Astronomers Have Detected a Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is pretty hard. Yet astronomers have just made one - of a Kuiper belt-like feature around a star 320
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NASA Finally Discovers The Shattered Remnants of India's Lost Moon Lander
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NASA Finally Discovers The Shattered Remnants of India's Lost Moon Lander
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NASA Finally Discovers The Shattered Remnants of India's Lost Moon Lander
NASA announced Monday that it had finally found the crash site of India's lost lunar lander, Vikram. Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera show the lander's crash site about 600 km (372 miles) from the Moon's south pole, shown bel
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Toxic White Foam Washes Up on Indian Beach, And People Don't Know to Stay Away
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Toxic White Foam Washes Up on Indian Beach, And People Don't Know to Stay Away
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Toxic White Foam Washes Up on Indian Beach, And People Don't Know to Stay Away
A menacing white foam covered one of India's most famous beaches in Chennai for the fourth straight day on Monday, creating a new pollution hazard for the country.
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It's Official: This Is The Hottest Decade in Recorded History, UN Warns
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It's Official: This Is The Hottest Decade in Recorded History, UN Warns
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It's Official: This Is The Hottest Decade in Recorded History, UN Warns
This decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said Tuesday in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing humanity's ability to adapt to it.
Nasa's Parker Solar Probe beams back first insights from sun's edge
“The first three encounters of the solar probe that we have had so far have been spectacular,” said Prof Stuart Bale, a physicist at the University of California, in Berkeley, who led the analysis from one of the craft’s instruments. “We can see the magnetic structure of the corona, which tells us that the solar wind is emerging from small coronal holes; we see impulsive activity, large jets or switchbacks, which we think are related to the origin of the solar wind. And we are also surprised by the ferocity of the dust environment.”
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Flying closer than any other mission, spacecraft set to unravel the sun’s mysteries“The first three encounters of the solar probe that we have had so far have been spectacular,” said Prof Stuart Bale, a physicist at the University of California, in Berkeley, who led the analysis from one of the craft’s instruments. “We can see the magnetic structure of the corona, which tells us that the solar wind is emerging from small coronal holes; we see impulsive activity, large jets or switchbacks, which we think are related to the origin of the solar wind. And we are also surprised by the ferocity of the dust environment.”
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Our Bodies Age in Three Distinct Shifts, According to More Than 4,000 Blood Tests
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Our Bodies Age in Three Distinct Shifts, According to More Than 4,000 Blood Tests
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Our Bodies Age in Three Distinct Shifts, According to More Than 4,000 Blood Tests
In terms of biological ageing, the body seems to shift gears three times during our lifespans, new research suggests – with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years the key thresholds.
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Scientists Create a New Kind of Artificial Flesh That Heals Itself Like The Real Thing
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Scientists Create a New Kind of Artificial Flesh That Heals Itself Like The Real Thing
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Scientists Create a New Kind of Artificial Flesh That Heals Itself Like The Real Thing
Artificial flesh is growing ever closer to the real thing. Scientists in Australia have now created a new jelly-like material which they claim has the strength and durability of actual skin, ligaments, or even bone.
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New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been Revealed
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New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been Revealed
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New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been Revealed
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui's attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human embryos and make them resistant to HIV, which led to the birth of twins Lulu and Nana.
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The First Mission to Remove Space Junk From Orbit Has Just Been Commissioned
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The First Mission to Remove Space Junk From Orbit Has Just Been Commissioned
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The First Mission to Remove Space Junk From Orbit Has Just Been Commissioned
Wherever we humans go, we leave behind a mess. That goes for space, too.
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New Zealand Exists Because of Volcanoes - Monday's Eruption Won't Be The Last
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New Zealand Exists Because of Volcanoes - Monday's Eruption Won't Be The Last
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New Zealand Exists Because of Volcanoes - Monday's Eruption Won't Be The Last
For centuries — and long before Mount Doom drew Tolkien's heroes to Mordor — New Zealand's explosive geology has awed and terrified the island's residents.
How Microbiomes Affect Fear
Until recently, studies of the gut-brain relationship have mostly shown only correlations between the state of the microbiome and operations in the brain. But new findings are digging deeper, building on research that demonstrates the microbiome’s involvement in responses to stress. Focusing on fear, and specifically on how fear fades over time, researchers have now tracked how behavior differs in mice with diminished microbiomes. They identified differences in cell wiring, brain activity and gene expression, and they pinpointed a brief window after birth when restoring the microbiome could still prevent the adult behavioral deficits. Read here
New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses.
Researchers are finding evidence that microbiomes can influence the fear responses of their hosts, possibly by releasing compounds that affect the brain’s neuroanatomy and function.Until recently, studies of the gut-brain relationship have mostly shown only correlations between the state of the microbiome and operations in the brain. But new findings are digging deeper, building on research that demonstrates the microbiome’s involvement in responses to stress. Focusing on fear, and specifically on how fear fades over time, researchers have now tracked how behavior differs in mice with diminished microbiomes. They identified differences in cell wiring, brain activity and gene expression, and they pinpointed a brief window after birth when restoring the microbiome could still prevent the adult behavioral deficits. Read here