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- Our science museum has a version of this. As a kid I’d park myself next to it and stare at it until it was time to go. It was the only exhibit I visitedGnash
- When I Grow Up I'm going to build one of these. I've wanted to for years, since I first learnt about them...Nairn
- ..then, just last week, I favourited this:
https://scoollab.web…Nairn - My fantasy was (is) to have a large-door sized one that sat vertically like some kind of fizzing monolith.Nairn
- ^ Fuck, that would be awesome!Gnash
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How does an MRI scan work?
Most of the human body is made up of water molecules, which consist of hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
At the centre of each hydrogen atom is an even smaller particle called a proton. Protons are like tiny magnets and are very sensitive to magnetic fields.
When you lie under the powerful scanner magnets, the protons in your body line up in the same direction, in the same way that a magnet can pull the needle of a compass.
Short bursts of radio waves are then sent to certain areas of the body, knocking the protons out of alignment.
When the radio waves are turned off, the protons realign. This sends out radio signals, which are picked up by receivers.
These signals provide information about the exact location of the protons in the body.
They also help to distinguish between the various types of tissue in the body, because the protons in different types of tissue realign at different speeds and produce distinct signals.
In the same way that millions of pixels on a computer screen can create complex pictures, the signals from the millions of protons in the body are combined to create a detailed image of the inside of the body.
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Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/News-E…
"The researchers found that during rest the volunteers’ brains rapidly and repeatedly replayed faster versions of the activity seen while they practiced typing a code."
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- https://advances.sci…sted
- So this how they put the nanobots in the vaccines hmmmmmgrafician
- I need one in me right nowBeeswax
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Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs
Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.
- * gay japanese scientistsESKEMA
- Why wait?drgs
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- the phrase "to blow smoke up your ass" comes from using arse belows to save people from drowning https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
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... Suddenly the team was able to tune different sections of the same magic material into a plethora of electronic states, from superconducting to insulating to somewhere in between. Then, by applying gates in different configurations, they were able to reproduce all of the parts of an electronic circuit that would ordinarily be created with completely different materials.
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'The doctors were puzzled. Parker had a temperature of 38C, complained of aching limbs, and had pustular eruptions all over her body. But as newspapers had announced the last known case of the disease a year before, smallpox was the last thing on anyone’s minds. Parker hadn’t been out of the country, and had been vaccinated against the disease in 1966. But as they noted her raised white cell count and mild renal failure, a terrifying realisation took hold: they had a case of one the world’s most dangerous and contagious diseases in a busy hospital in suburban Birmingham.'
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Mad story about a smallpox outbreak in Birmingham in the 70's. There's a bit about the scientist driving about with samples of the deadliest strains of the disease in the back of his car.
Pretty lucky there were some quick thinking people involved.
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15 French volunteers leave cave after 40 days without daylight or clocks
Deep Time project investigated how a lack of external contact would affect sense of time – and two thirds wanted to stay longer
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Need a New Tooth? Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth
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- cure for baldness in there too?grafician
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First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals
The chimaeras lived up to 19 days — but some scientists question the need for such research.
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MICROSOFT RESEARCHERS CLAIM ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS A MACHINE-LEARNING ALGORITHM https://futurism.com/the-byte/mi…
- Are these geniuses saying anything different from Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?mort_
- I believe this is call overfitting, https://pluralistic.…jpgjpg
- "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."mort_