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First direct brain-to-brain "social network" is a true meeting of minds

10-15-2018 • arclein

. The new system, dubbed BrainNet, was tested by wiring three test subjects up to machines that let them send messages to each other using just their brainwaves.

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Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That'll Last for Thousands of Years

10-12-2018 • Big Think

This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.

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Laser beams have gravity and can warp the fabric of the universe

10-12-2018 • arclein

Light is heavy. Powerful laser beams have a gravitational field, which warps the fabric of the universe around them and may help us understand how gravity behaves in the quantum realm.

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Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis

10-10-2018 • arclein

If a solution to the Riemann hypothesis is confirmed, it would be big news. Among other things, the hypothesis is intimately connected to the distribution of prime numbers, those indivisible by any whole number other than themselves and one. If the h

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Bacteria from cold environments may prove useful in making green, energy-saving detergents

10-08-2018 • arclein

. One example of such a change could be due to biosurfactants ?" particles produced by certain microorganisms ?" which hold the ability to serve as building blocks for potential commercial products like cleaners and detergents.

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One is the loneliest number: the history of a Western problem

09-29-2018 • arclein

Yet loneliness is not a universal condition; nor is it a purely visceral, internal experience. It is less a single emotion and more a complex cluster of feelings, composed of anger, grief, fear, anxiety, sadness and shame. It also has social and poli

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There are more microbial species on Earth than stars in the galaxy

09-29-2018 • arclein

. In total, the estimated number of microbial cells on Earth hovers around a nonillion (1030), a number that outstrips imagination and exceeds the estimated number of stars in the Universe. Naturally, this begs the question of how many species might

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Revolutionary Breakthrough Cancer Treatment

09-24-2018 • arclein

What we are going to look at in this chapter is a new concept in oxygen therapy, or what might be called oxygen manipulation; treatments that would alternate between oxygen deprivation and maximum oxygen saturation to stimulate the immune system, sp

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Science Study: Rising CO2 Producing 'Miracle' Re-greening Effects Across the Planet

09-24-2018 • arclein

Now, new science published in Nature demonstrates that global tree cover is rapidly expanding across the planet as CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere rise to healthier, pro-tree levels that support forest growth and health.