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Feb 9, 2023

Single-Cell-Initiated Transsynaptic Tracing method was able to demonstrate, for the first time that the convergence of different ganglion cell types in the monocular and binocular combination modes occurs at the LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) of the thalamus

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This suggests that the visual thalamus not only relays but also combines different retinal channels to generate new visual channels.

Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.028

Feb 9, 2023

Wikipedia and other sources say the arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, was invented in 1903 by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen

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The arc converter used an electric arc to convert direct current electricity into radio frequency alternating current.

It is a fact that Nikola Tesla invented the arc converter and demonstrated it in a lecture given before the Franklin Institute and National Light Association in 1893.

Feb 8, 2023

Tetraquinoline is the newest member of the nitrogen macrocycle family

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The new saddle-shaped macrocycle shows catalytic activity and affinity to zinc cations.

Feb 8, 2023

A universal flu vaccine: Here’s what you need to know

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Researchers in the US have made progress on a ‘universal’ influenza vaccine, which would cover all strains and help reduce deaths in future flu pandemics.

Feb 8, 2023

Why More People Should Watch the Most Underrated Sci-Fi Show on Television

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Every single season is a cracker.

Feb 8, 2023

Lasers reveal massive, 650-square-mile Maya site hidden beneath Guatemalan rainforest

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While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site.

Feb 7, 2023

Do we live in a rotating universe? If we did, we could travel back in time

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This strange behavior doesn’t apply only to light. If you were to get in a rocket and blast off through a rotating universe, you, too, would get caught up in the rotation. And because of that rotation, your movement would double back on itself. When you returned to your starting point, however, you would find yourself arriving before you had left.

In a manner of speaking, a rotating universe would be capable of rotating your future into your own past, allowing you to travel back in time.

Feb 7, 2023

Has the first person to live to be 150 been born?

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Date January 30, 2023 January 31, 2023

Feb 7, 2023

Miraculous Returns: Terminal Lucidity and the Work of Alexander Batthyány

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By Kenneth Ring, Ph.D.

We who must die demand a miracle.

W. H. Auden

Feb 7, 2023

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

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I guess they’re John Wick fans.


The molecules kill some types of fungi “so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves,” said the lead author of the study.

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