Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
The slime mold Physarum uses mechanical signals to probe environments that it hasn’t directly explored yet.
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Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? My research takes us a step closer to finding out0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer.
‘Eye of Sauron’ volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater ‘Mordor’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 27, 2021
It is one of several discoveries named after “The Lord of the Rings.”
‘Generator’ Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 26, 2021
Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.
Meteor lights up the night in Norway0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2021
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Marsquakes reveal the anatomy of the Red Planet’s interior0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2021
Seismic waves from quakes detected by NASA’s robotic InSight lander have helped scientists decipher the anatomy of Mars, including the first estimates of the size of its large liquid metal core, thickness of its crust, and nature of its mantle.
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 23, 2021
The Air Force Research Laboratory argues that we’ve hit a tipping point with directed energy technologies, bringing many science fiction concepts closer to reality.
When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 23, 2021
Around 74,000 years ago, a “supereruption” on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, blasted out an estimated 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma. This was the Toba eruption, the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years. To put 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma in perspective, this is more than a hundred times as large as the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and included enough ash to blanket the entire United Kingdom about 1 millimetre deep.
The leader’s brain: Neuroscience in the workplace0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
The brain rarely fires on all cylinders even at the best of times – what more during a pandemic?
Sea snot choking Turkey’s waters could be a warning to the world0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 22, 2021
Turkey’s Marmara Sea is dying. Globs of feathery goo are literally choking the life out of the water. Scientists say rising sea temperatures and untreated wastewater being dumped into the sea combined to create the perfect conditions for phytoplankton to thrive. Now it’s thriving at the expense of everything else.
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