Science Of The Day
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- HijoDMaite0
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- Beetlejuice! The red star. I forgot everything I learned in Astronomy. :(HijoDMaite
- nice marblesernexbcn
- We should like...move to the sun, we would like, have way more space for houses and malls...likesem
- bullshit. if that's the sun, why is it casting a shadow?
https://imgflip.com/…Gnash
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- neverscared1
Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer's Risk by Over 50%
- neverscared3
Good news, stoners! Science is finally backing up what you've long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy, to boot.
In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of New Mexico researchers found evidence that cannabis use makes people more empathetic, as well as less motivated by money.
- sted4
Chilean scientist plans to clean up mining with 'metal eating' bacteria
- PioneerDJ3030
Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge after Arizona monsoon
https://www.livescience.com/dino…- Hundreds, you say?Nairn
- You can buy and raise ‘em like sea monkeys. I had a kit when i was little https://pethelpful.c…scarabin
- Life Finds a Wayutopian
- damnGuyFawkes
- shapesalad3
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.
- ESKEMA2
How Earth Will Look In 250 million Years
- according to plate tectonics theoryESKEMA
- Plate techtonics theory: “everything attached”cannonball1978
- ok_not_ok0
- foutreutopian
- No, it’s notGnash
- It is if you think about it.monospaced
- Nope, no cool mirror visor, no patches or camera, no comm’s. And no matter how much time you spend in your suit, you don’t absorb your tailGnash
- when you think about it, bark is a spacesuit for a tree, skin is a spacesuit for a human, etc. etc. we are outfitted by evolution for our environssarahfailin
- Bluejam2
"Sun seen in UV light."
https://twitter.com/MichaelGalan…
- robotron3k3
Get your tissues out, this real tear jerker watching a cell die...
- uan2
there's is also the studies of cave stone age art done by Genevieve von Petzinger who hint to some kind of lost global civilisation.
- she has a fun job. something you'd be happy to do on a weekend as well as all week.shapesalad
- 2:25: a caveman coughed up blood whilst steadying himself on the wallProjectile
- Nairn0
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"This begs the question of why some of the petroglyphs depict animals like hippos and rhinoceroses which aren't found in this part of India. Did the people who created them migrate to India from Africa? Or were these animals once found in India? "Wow!
They have a sort of Australian aboriginal quality to them, too.
- and also technical similarities to the nazca lines in south americauan
- Aye, that too!
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ALIENS.Nairn - I don't think it's aliens, I think we just don't know a lot about the history of our own planet...and science is pushing our understanding in new directionsuan
- I was taking the piss.Nairn
- science expands our understandingmonospaced
- Agreed, uan. So much of our history has been lost, at Alexandria and Bagdad, and also as a result of catastrophic events like the ice age.MondoMorphic
- sarahfailin2
Scientists claim to find evidence of previous iterations of our universe in the cosmic background radiation, but are they just seeing shapes in clouds? Stephen Hawking once found his initials in the cosmic background radiation:
- so this means that the age of our current universe is 13.8 billion years but in reality it could be infinitely older._niko
- ^it almost certainly is.sarahfailin
- PonyBoy0
McDonald's french fries contain chemical that may cure baldness, study says
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drin…
"A Japanese stem cell research team may have found a way to eliminate baldness by using an ingredient in McDonald’s french fries.
The scientists from Yokohama National University discovered the chemical dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicone used in McDonald’s fry oil to prevent splashing, can be used to mass produce hair follicles on mice."
- plash1
- Launch Scheduled for June 1 at 5:55 p.m. EDT/ 21:55UTCplash
- This will be the first time that a Dragon spacecraft will be reused and should help scale back the production line and shift focus to Dragon v2.plash
- 10 billion dollars spent on research and development. 10 dollars spent on graphic design._niko
- Lol niko, I was going to say this mission will be remembered as the 1st time humans put truly awful graphic design into space.fadein11
- sonnde-3
- WTF is this?utopian
- insufferably smug as always.inteliboy
- oh shit, i thought maybe you could read itsonnde
- the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution ofsonnde
- populations and resources, land use, and industries.
the nature and relative arrangement of places and physical features.sonnde - This is not a 'study'. I hope you can see that. Claiming that the 'Americas' was the first born continent is a little bit of a waning bell. The first two...Morning_star
- ..words of the article itself is enough evidence to conclude that this is worthless. To top it all, you seem incapable of offering any context or opinion tin...Morning_star
- ...(in) justifying your posts.Morning_star
- all moot, anyway. since it's been established now that Greeks created mankind!Gnash
- Adam and Eve were Greek?Morning_star
- duh, yaGnash
- I mean it does have footnotes.sonnde
- nothing about this is scientificmonospaced
- Geography.sonnde
- what about it?monospaced
- See Definition Abovesonnde
- That's not the definition of Geography, and that's not scientific in any way shape or form.monospaced
- Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features ...sonnde
- like I said, your post has nothing to do with science, let alone geographymonospaced
- tldr; is this flat earth intel?ArchitectofFate
- illegible, too small to read.utopian
- *factssonnde
- don't mind that guy over there yelling at the wall, he does that.sonnde
- i like small type sorry grampssonnde
- still not science nor scientific in any way conceivablemonospaced
- right cause geography is too deep for you, here go, H20 means water. fun right?sonnde
- here *you go
*H2O
i corrected myself, see, now correct yourself and never post againsonnde - I"m not wrong, the text you posted is. Geography isn't what is being discussed in the text, nor is it approached from a scientific point of view.monospaced
- Masonry is Science. Too bad you're not in the know of 'self' ... this describes 'earth' - geography accomplished get a fucking life.sonnde
- I have a great life, and I don't need to believe in some random interpretation of what "knowing of oneself" is today either. Sounds like you have no life.monospaced
- carry on with your unwanted trolling ... really makes this place funmonospaced
- sounds masochisticsonnde
- yeah, you're fucking weirdmonospaced
- plash2
if you want to see something cool; check out the launch of the SpaceX: Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 .. happening in a couple hours.
Live Webcast:
Site: http://www.inmarsat.com/i5f4/
- uan2
atomic force microscopy brings us the first single molecule picture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienc…