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Feb 28
2021

What happens to your body when you fast?

Feb 28
2021

Decades-Long Experiment Finds Strange Mix of Antimatter in The Heart of Every Proton

Like the Universe’s tiniest matryoshka dolls, atoms are typically modelled as particles within particles – a nuclei built of protons and neutrons, which in turn contain trios of fundamental particles called quarks.

Feb 28
2021

Upscaling Footage From The Moon To 4K

Footage from the Apollo 16 mission like you’ve never seen before! 🎥🌕

Feb 28
2021

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

What probably many of us did not comprehend is the scale of it until we saw these comparisons.

Feb 28
2021

This robot sweats to cool itself down

Wait, robots can sweat now?

Feb 28
2021

Quantum Theory May Twist Cause And Effect Into Loops, With Effect Causing The Cause

Causality is one of those difficult scientific topics that can easily stray into the realm of philosophy.

Feb 28
2021

Scientists Levitate Tiny Plastic Plate Using Just Light

The Disney-like breakthrough could further our understanding of Mars. Read the details here.

Feb 28
2021

Did A Comet Fragment Kill The Dinosaurs? Not Likely, Say Researchers

The latest hypothesis that the demise of the dinosaurs was precipitated by a cometary fragment that slammed into the Gulf of Mexico some 66 million years ago is being met with skepticism in the Earth sciences community.

Feb 27
2021

Next of Kin

Iya Iya.

Is that Trump in your picture profile, Roger? I don’t think I can take this post seriously for various reasons.

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Trent Condellone.

He’s going to chip the farmland, wait and see.

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Feb 27
2021

10 Breakthrough Technologies

This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you’ll find a brief description along with a link to a feature article that probes each technology in detail. We hope you’ll enjoy and explore—taken together, we believe this list represents a glimpse into our collective future.