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- Gnash2
- musk's company put an implant in an ape's head that lets it play pong with its mind. you could be next! sign up at the link end of video.sarahfailin
- Amazingscarabin
- This is incredibleTOMMYxGUNN
- PhanLo3
Novel HIV vaccine approach shows promise in “landmark” first-in-human trial and successfully stimulates the production of the rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV in 97 percent of participants
- Thanks in part to Covid research.PhanLo
- is it an mRNA vaccine? doesn't say in the article.renderedred
- https://www.european… Yep, it says in this one.PhanLo
- so 3% of the population will get HIV if injected vs 0.00000003% if not injected.
wake top sheeple, it's easy math
-pr2_niko - ^ Lol Niko. :-)PhanLo
- remember in the 80s when AIDS was a "Gay" thing, fuck the 80'sGuyFawkes
- ESKEMA2
How Earth Will Look In 250 million Years
- according to plate tectonics theoryESKEMA
- Plate techtonics theory: “everything attached”cannonball1978
- keewee2
-New study sows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe
“We don't know much about dark matter other than that it is a heavy and slow particle. But then we wondered -- what if dark matter had some quality that was analogous to magnetism in it? We know that as normal particles move around, they create magnetism. And, magnets attract or repel other magnets -- so what if that's what's going on in the universe? That this constant expansion of dark matter is occurring thanks to some sort of magnetic force?"
- I can buy this. DM is a fix for forces that we don't yet comprehend. DE too, I suspect.Nairn
- What if magnetism is time itself. And ifwe just put a big enough magnet on a DeLorean we'd have a time machine?shapesalad
- FTL is basically time travel...grafician
- Magnets, how the fuck do they workdrgs
- mort_3
From the book Biocentrism by Robert Lanza
In reality, recent experiments show conclusively that the brain’s electrochemical connections, its neural impulses traveling at 240 miles per hour, cause decisions to be made faster than we are even aware of them. In other words, the brain and mind, too, operate all by itself, without any need for external meddling by our thoughts, which also incidentally occur by themselves. So control, too, is largely an illusion. As Einstein put it, “We can will ourselves to act, but we cannot will ourselves to will.”
The most cited experiment in this field was conducted a quarter-century ago. Researcher Benjamin Libet asked subjects to choose a random moment to perform a hand motion while hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG) monitor in which the so-called “readiness potential” of the brain was being monitored. Naturally, electrical signals always precede actual physical actions, but Libet wanted to know whether they also preceded a subject’s subjective feeling of intention to act. In short, is there some subjective “self ” who consciously decides things, thereby setting in motion the brain’s electrical activities that ultimately lead to the action? Or is it the other way ’round? Subjects were therefore asked to note the position of a clock’s second hand when they first felt the initial intention to move their hand.
Libet’s findings were consistent, and perhaps not surprising: unconscious, unfelt, brain electrical activity occurred a full half second before there was any conscious sense of decision-making by the subject. More recent experiments by Libet, announced in 2008, analyzing separate, higher-order brain functions, have allowed his research team to predict up to ten seconds in advance which hand a subject is about to decide to raise. Ten seconds is nearly an eternity when it comes to cognitive decisions, and yet a person’s eventual decision could be seen on brain scans that long before the subject was even remotely aware of having made any decision. This and other experiments prove that the brain makes its own decisions on a subconscious level, and people only later feel that “they” have performed a conscious decision. It means that we go through life thinking that, unlike the blessedly autonomous operations of the heart and kidneys, a lever-pulling “me” is in charge of the brain’s workings. Libet concluded that the sense of personal free will arises solely from a habitual retrospective perspective of the ongoing flow of brain events.
- Gnash7
Fucking magnets
- Man that’s cool, I guess the only energy necessary is to keep the liquid nitrogen at a low temp?_niko
- And they label the crystal and the gold but they don’t tell us what the superconductor is? Or will any superconductive material work?_niko
- But regardless, and not sure if scalable for trains etc but this is pretty badass_niko
- so that's how space ships work? cool!grafician
- using Earth's magnetic field or using a self-generated magnetic field...cool!grafician
- awesomecannonball1978
- brilliantStoicLevels
- next up: hoverboards! (finally!)Krassy
- keewee1
Isn’t space supposed to be empty?
- nobody has believed that since the 1960s, keeweemonospaced
- ESKEMA1
"Eight minus six ... two”
Scientists communicated with asleep dreaming person.https://beta.nsf.gov/science-mat…
a better question would have been:
What's your pin number?
- PonyBoy0
This fossilized butthole gives us a rare window into dinosaur sex
https://www.popsci.com/story/sci…
The cloaca is the hole-y grail to understanding prehistoric copulation.
- IRNlun60
- By 4yrs they believe that the earth is flatutopian
- By 5yrs they believe that the Apple is bestutopian
- By 6yrs they hate Nickelback.utopian
- By 7 they have dreds and have discovered ketaminescarabin
- prefer the to what? I didn't read the article :)monospaced
- preferred to eating broccoliGuyFawkes
- that's a cauliflowerMrT
- grafician2
"A New Map of All the Particles and Forces"
"We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe."
- I find these things infinitely fascinating but also infinitely impossible to understand, let alone understanding how scientists discover these things._niko
- But I guess that’s the point, the Higgs boson was theorized but not confirmed until the creation of the LHC and billions of dollars and thousands of scientists_niko
- Working for millions of collective hours. So o don’t feel so bad for not quite getting it but still._niko
- it's not really that hard to get _niko, you just need to drink moregrafician
- Or smoke/ingest more certain substances lol_niko
- @niko the moment you say you understand quantum mechanics it means you understand nothing about it, a famous quoterenderedred
- sted7
Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption by 125%, Study Shows
- neat.utopian
- Good news, solar and other renewable sources surpassed old energy sources recently in value.grafician
- Also ppl looking into the viability of underwater currents power plants. Way more powerful and efficient than wind farms and such.grafician
- Honest question: aside from storage, a problem with solar is keeping them clean, so how do you deal with the grime in the new grooves?garbage
- I'm sure there's a protective cover, but eventually that's just gonna seal in the flavor?garbage
- Cool, I want my chickens, my stove and my solar paneli_was
- Re grime in grooves, perhaps the etching pattern still works if it’s facing down (away from the elements)Gnash
- I see a business opportunity here as a pattern maker lolgrafician
- if it turns out that the swastika is the most efficient pattern, do you still use it?Gnash
- @gnash There is a big overlap between climate change deniers and neo-nazis. Might be a good way to trick them into saving the planet.garbage
- lolmonospaced
- The 'etching' is less than micrometre thick - you don't need to worry about grot accumulation here. Even at 0.25mm you'd not much need to.Nairn
- eh, Gnash - when it tiles it's a Sayagata, not a mere symbol of Aryan domination-fantasy. It's an interesting form. Hugely inefficent when it comes to cutting.Nairn
- ..kind of like fractals. Never laser-cut a fractal. it takes ages.Nairn
- uan1
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/p…
„Yet while researchers celebrate the achievement, they stress that the newfound compound — created by a team led by Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester — will never find its way into lossless power lines, frictionless high-speed trains, or any of the revolutionary technologies that could become ubiquitous if the fragile quantum effect underlying superconductivity could be maintained in truly ambient conditions.“
so still no hoverboards :(
„That’s because the substance superconducts at room temperature only while being crushed between a pair of diamonds to pressures roughly 75% as extreme as those found in the Earth’s core.“
- sted0