Scientists are attempting to map the wiring of the nearly 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Are we close to uncovering the mysteries of the mind or are we only at the beginning of a new frontier?
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One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we’ll have to find those exoplanets under aliens suns.
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When excited by lasers, a tiny glass container filled with rubidium atoms can act as a receiver for streamed video signals.
The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.
Squad city car. Squad Mobility. Dutch startup Squad Mobility unveiled its first car, the all-electric Squad. The tiny city car charges through a built-in solar panel and has 62 miles of driving range.
A new study finds a few possible sources for the Wow! Signal, detected in 1977. The star, located 1,800 light years away, could be a good target for alien searches.
Showcasing my finalist entry in the Future of Life Institute’s AI worldbuilding competition.
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Two more European countries reported unusual monkeypox cases on Wednesday, a development that suggests an outbreak first spotted in the United Kingdom is more widespread than first believed.
Probs just an exterrestial’s ear ring or something 🤔
China’s Yutu-2 rover just won’t stop making — or at least claiming – weird discoveries on the Moon. Case in point, Chinese space authorities now say it’s found several mysterious glass spheres found on the far side of the lunar surface.
The team behind the discovery published a paper about the findings in the journal Science Bulletin, in which they describe the objects as “translucent glass globules.”
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An experiment in mice has shown that a protein in the nervous system can have a rejuvenating effect on older animals, a finding which may help with future research into how to treat the neurological disease.
