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Mind-Bending NASA Visualization Shows The Wild Warping of Binary Black Holes
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Mind-Bending NASA Visualization Shows The Wild Warping of Binary Black Holes
Although it's extremely difficult to directly image the shadow of and the space around a black hole, that's not the only tool astronomers have in their kit.
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The Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter is set to make history. It will make the first attempt at powered flight on another planet on Monday, April 19. Don’t miss your chance to watch live with helicopter team in mission control beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT (10:15 a.m. UTC) as they receive the data and find out if they were successful.
Link: https://youtu.be/p1KolyCqICI
Link: https://youtu.be/p1KolyCqICI
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First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: Live from Mission Control
Up, up, and away! The Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter is set to make history. It will make the first attempt at powered flight on another planet on Monday, April 19. Don’t miss your chance to watch live with helicopter team in mission control beginning at 6:15…
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The blades of an average helicopter on Earth rotate at a rate of 400-500 rotations per minute.
The blades of the Ingenuity rotate at a rate of 2,500 rotations per minute. 🚁
Source: NASA
The blades of the Ingenuity rotate at a rate of 2,500 rotations per minute. 🚁
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The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations
Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.
During every waking moment, we humans and other animals have to balance on the edge of our awareness of past and present. We must absorb new sensory information about the world around us while holding on to short-term memories of earlier observations or events. Our ability to make sense of our surroundings, to learn, to act and to think all depend on constant, nimble interactions between perception and memory. Read on Quantamagazine.
Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.
During every waking moment, we humans and other animals have to balance on the edge of our awareness of past and present. We must absorb new sensory information about the world around us while holding on to short-term memories of earlier observations or events. Our ability to make sense of our surroundings, to learn, to act and to think all depend on constant, nimble interactions between perception and memory. Read on Quantamagazine.
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We Finally Know How The Biggest Nuts Always Rise to The Top
The problem starts with Brazil nuts. The large edible seeds are a common fixture in mixed nut bags, but they're not to everyone's liking - especially since they get dry and bitter once past the peak of freshness. And to make matters worse, they alw
The world’s biggest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii, is a parasite that spends much of its life inside its vine hosts. New genomic work suggests that the parasites in this group of plants have lost an astonishing share of their genes.
The bizarre genome of the world’s most mysterious flowering plants shows how far parasites will go in stealing, deleting and duplicating DNA.
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The bizarre genome of the world’s most mysterious flowering plants shows how far parasites will go in stealing, deleting and duplicating DNA.
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Our Sense of Time Is Warped When We Catch The Eye of Another Person
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Our Sense of Time Is Warped When We Catch The Eye of Another Person
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Our Sense of Time Is Warped When We Catch The Eye of Another Person
Our language weighs heavily with idioms and clichés about the human gaze. Whether they're windows to the soul, or we're staring daggers, eye contact communicates more about our intentions than words ever could alone.
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Mesmerizing Video Shows Ingenuity's 3rd, Surprisingly Long Mars Flight
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Mesmerizing Video Shows Ingenuity's 3rd, Surprisingly Long Mars Flight
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Mesmerizing Video Shows Ingenuity's 3rd, Surprisingly Long Mars Flight
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully executed its third flight over the surface of Mars on Sunday.
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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
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What's The Deal With The 'Supermoon'? There's a Clever Illusion Going On
No matter where you are in the world, and no matter how light the skies are, the Moon is always there. Our only natural satellite has inspired literature, art and science for thousands of years.
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
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There Could Be 14 Antimatter Objects Lurking Out There in The Milky Way
In a map of the gamma-ray sky - the highest energy electromagnetic radiation streaming through our Universe - 14 objects could be hiding a big secret.
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
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Scientists Have Identified Four Distinct Types of Alzheimer's And What They Do to Us
The more we understand about Alzheimer's, the faster we can work towards better treatments and ultimately a cure, which makes discovering four distinct subtypes of the brain disease an important one.
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules can be arranged. There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. There’s another where, say, the molecules settle in a tidy clump at the pool’s bottom. But there are uncountable billions of permutations where the molecules spread out in different ways throughout the water. If the universe chooses from all the possible states at random, you can bet that it’s going to end up with one of the vast set of disordered possibilities. Read on Quantamagazine
The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules can be arranged. There’s one possible state where the molecules are crowded into the thimble. There’s another where, say, the molecules settle in a tidy clump at the pool’s bottom. But there are uncountable billions of permutations where the molecules spread out in different ways throughout the water. If the universe chooses from all the possible states at random, you can bet that it’s going to end up with one of the vast set of disordered possibilities. Read on Quantamagazine
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
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Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet's Atmosphere
During a close flyby of the planet Venus in July 2020, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected something odd.
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
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Touchdown! SpaceX Safely Lands Gigantic Starship Rocket After 4 Fiery Failures
On Wednesday, SpaceX sent the latest prototype of its mega-rocket system roaring six miles above Texas, its fifth such launch since December.
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
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Sharks Navigate Using Earth's Magnetic Fields Like a Compass, New Research Shows
Sharks are known for their long-distance migrations – across thousands of kilometers – but what's not clear is exactly how they navigate. An interesting new experiment involving swimming pools and magnetic fields may give us some big hints, how
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
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Have a Listen to The Historic Sound of Ingenuity Flying on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter's blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
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We're Getting Buried in Browser Tabs And Scientists Want to Fix It
If you're struggling to handle the long line of tabs open in your browser right now, you're not alone.
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
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Incredible Images Reveal a Single Moment on Jupiter in Different Wavelengths of Light
Jupiter: king of the planets, protector of the inner Solar System. We all know what the gas giant looks like, with its vanilla and butterscotch ice-cream bands of counter-rotating cloud, and the iconic red storm raging in the southern hemisphere.
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
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Bizarre Discovery Suggests Pink Drinks Make People Run Faster, But Why?
If you're going to gargle something next time you go for a run, here's some free advice: Try using a pink-colored drink. As strange as it sounds, pink drinks appear to be linked with enhanced running performance.