Lifeboat Foundation

History is full of forgotten heroes. Sometimes that’s because somebody else got credit for their work. Sometimes it’s because they were women in a male-dominated world. And sometimes it’s because a couple of continents *cough* Western society *cough* decided they didn’t want to include them in the history books. Meet Ibn al-Haytham — the guy who basically invented Science with a capital S.

The finding could help answer a longstanding question of how massive stone blocks were hauled into place.

• By Owen Jarus, LiveScience on November 5, 2018

Scientists have zeroed in on breast cancer cells’ most imminent danger lies in the spreading, which helps find new ways to prevent them.

The latest high resolution satellites can pick out whales surfacing in huge swaths of ocean, which will aid in conservation.

Your perceptions of your parents directly affects your physical health and wellness, according to new research. And regardless if they are true, you might be stuck with them for life.

“There are things that happen to us in life that can alter our perceptions of the past, but it’s not always the objective—or what actually happened—that really affects us,” says lead author William Chopik, psychology professor at Michigan State University.

“What really impacts adults is how we psychologically interpret things and create memories. In short: our memories of our childhood predicted health and depression even though they may not even be based in reality,” Chopik says.

Pizza Hut has recently unveiled a full-size delivery truck with an automatic pizza-making factory in the truck bed, complete with computer-guided robotic arms.

Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That’s exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device, funded by the German federal and state governments and the European Union, is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. The new experiment’s goal is to contain a super-heated gas, called plasma, in a donut-shaped vessel using magnets that twist their way around the donut.

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Conference Held at Adelphi University 2013.
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