Meet the Amateur Rocketeer Building Self-Landing Replicas of SpaceX Rockets
• Motherboard ViceJoe Barnard has spent the last three years pioneering DIY landing technologies for amateur rockets and now the aerospace industry is paying attention.
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Natural sugar cuts diabetes risk in mice
• arcleinA natural sugar called trehalose blocks glucose from the liver and activates a gene that boosts insulin sensitivity, which reduces the chance of developing diabetes, according to new research in mice.
Maple leaves may hold the key to wrinkle-prevention
• arcleinAs a side benefit, these same compounds may also be able to protect skin against inflammation, and lighten unwanted dark spots.
Non-Western Magic in the European Brain" ?" Return of Voodoo fMRI?
• arcleinHaving found the optimal filters, Koten et al. go on to show that they are more effective than existing approaches (unfiltered data or classical SPM filters) with a dizzying set of comparisons:
Jet Engines Strapped to Feet Going 103.4 MPH! In 8K!
• YouTube.Com - devinsupertrampWe reached out to our friend Franky Zapata the inventor of the Flyboard Air to make this project happen! Find out more about his rad inventions here: https://zapata.com/flyboard
How cosmic is the cosmos?
• arcleinAshtekar is not alone in connecting modern cosmology with ancient non-Western thinking. There is a long tradition devoted to uncovering parallels between the two. Werner Heisenberg, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, had a meeting on t
Ringmakers of Saturn 9 - Iapetus Mystery Unraveled
• arcleinFurther, in 1913, Harvard advocated more study of Iapetus because some observations had revealed sudden and large, irregular brightness fluctuations. Attempts to explain Iapetus must contend with these horns of an historical dilemma. Plate 37 sho
Hiker Confronts Invisible Bipedal Entity
• arclein"I have encountered an entity which has some similarity to the "Flash." One problem is that we don't have names for these things. I was camping alone in the mountains as I used to do, for 4 weeks every Summer. I would spend a week here and a w
Asteroid belt may be remains of half a dozen ancient planets
• arcleinThe researchers say that these connections suggest that up to 85 percent of the asteroids in the inner belt can be attributed to five known families: Flora, Vesta, Nysa, Polana and Eulalia. The remaining 15 percent could also fall into those same cat
Frigid polar oceans, not balmy coral reefs, are species-formation hot spots
• arcleinCommon sense suggests that a high rate of new species formation will eventually lead to impressive levels of biodiversity. But that depends on how many of the newly formed species survive and how many go extinct. And extinction rates could not be add
Our sun grew fat when a sausage collided with the Milky Way
• arcleinA collision 8 to 10 billion years ago between our own Milky Way and a smaller galaxy dubbed "the sausage" helped grow stars in the centre of the Milky Way, including our own sun. The smaller galaxy was torn apart in the collision, providing extra
The brain's secret powerhouse that makes us who we are
• arclein. Neuroscientists are starting to suspect that this little cauliflower-shaped orb at the back of our head, which is packed with more neurons than all the other brain regions put together and home to a superfast wiring system, is doing the kinds of co
Crows vs. Ravens: A Numbers Game
• arclein"Just spending time outdoors, I'd frequently see crows harassing ravens…that was interesting to me because in nature it's usually the bigger birds that dominate the smaller birds," says Freeman. "I wondered if this was a real 'thing' and if
Astronomers Watch The Birth Of An Alien Planet
• arcleinIn a new study published online Monday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of astronomers presented the first convincing observation of a planet-sized object orbiting within the circumstellar disk of its host star - in this case, a 10-m
How Science is Used as Propaganda
• https://www.thedailybell.comA new study says you can't trust most studies. Well, that is one way to make sure your study is believed… If the study is wrong, it proves the study is right! It's like when someone tells you they are a liar… should you believe them?
Massive atmospheric wave on Venus could explain the planet's weird rotation
• arclein"In the past we had different estimates of the rotation rates, but something that was a bit strange was that you had different measurements that did not match," says Thomas Navarro, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA and lead author of the paper.
Area of Global Dead Zones Doubling Every 10 Years
• arcleinRabalais, who is also a distinguished research professor at LSU's Marine Consortium, told Truthout the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico has, over the 31 years it has been measured, averaged 5,806 square miles in size.
What is wrong with tolerance
• arcleinTolerance has indeed historically been a framework for people fundamentally different from one another to live peacefully together. Which is precisely why it is time to dispense once and for all with tolerance as a model for relations between groups.
Could Humans and Dinosaurs Coexist? Here's the Science
• arcleinBut science has actually gone one better than fiction since the first Jurassic Park film came out in 1993: In late 2016, paleontologists announced the discovery of most of a dinosaur tail in amber, with well-preserved feathers and skin. But eve
Connection between stress and autoimmune disease affirmed by massive 30-year study
•A massive study spanning 30 years of data and examining a cohort of over one million people has found a strong association between persons suffering from stress disorders, including PTSD, and an increased risk of developing autoimmune diseases such a
Ayahuasca, the Psychedelic Antidepressant?
• arcleinIn my view, this is a promising study, and well-designed. For instance, Palhano-Fontes et al. went to some lengths to make the placebo brew look, taste and smell like the real thing. They even added zinc sulfate to make the placebo cause gastrointest
Sleep, Exercise And 25ml Of Wine Each Day Can Help The Brain To 'Wash' Itself
• arclein'In the mice that were awake, that cerebrospinal fluid starts to go into the brain but only resides on the surface and doesn't go deep into the brain tissue. 'In the same animal when it fell asleep, that cerebrospinal fluid goes far deeper i
Laser holography kit that can fit in a backpack can project holograms into your brain
• https://www.naturalnews.com(Natural News) The ability to implant artificial thoughts, memories, and sensory experiences into people's brains isn't that far off, according to new reports.
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Periodic Table
• http://listverse.comYou've probably seen the periodic table of the elements before. Perhaps it still haunts your dreams, or maybe it came off as nothing more than requisite visual background noise meant to make a science classroom look more sophisticated. There's a
Graphene - The Next Big, but Thin, Thing...
Donna HancockGraphene is one of the forms of carbon. Like diamonds and graphite, the forms (or 'allotropes') of carbon have different crystal structures, and this gives them different properties. Graphene is the basic 2D (two dimensional) form of a number of 3D a
Stunning finding reveals autism is highest in areas with the highest vaccination rates
• arcleinAs The World Mercury Project reports, Canada ranks in the "top 10" countries for autism rates. In 2018, it was revealed that 1 in 66 Canadian children were on the autism spectrum, based on data collected in 2015.
Scientists: Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting 'Weird,' We Could Experience A 'Shutter
• arcleinHistorically, Earth's North and South magnetic poles have flipped every 200,000 or 300,000 years. However, the last flip was about 780,000 years ago, meaning our planet is well overdue. The latest satellite data, from the European Space Agency's
Fake scientist Bill Nye went from educating children to advocating their murder:...
• https://www.naturalnews.comHe's now speaking for Planned Parenthood and pushing population control... (Natural News) Former PBS "Science Guy" Bill Nye recently spoke at a fundraising event in San Antonio for Planned Parenthood of South Texas, a regional chapter of Plann
Atom thin magnetic memory
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comResearchers report that they used stacks of ultrathin materials to exert unprecedented control over the flow of electrons based on the direction of their spins -- where the electron "spins" are analogous to tiny, subatomic magnets. The materials
'Star Trek' Replicator Is Now Plausible
• arcleinlarge-scale carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes that are able to combine and separate individual molecules.
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