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Feb 26, 2019

Green and privileged childhoods signal better adult mental

Posted by in categories: food, neuroscience

As greenery round the childhood residence shrunk, risk of mental illness as an adolescent and adult went up. Kids who grew up in plots with the least vegetation had a 15 to 50% greater incidence of a range of psychiatric problems, including depression, eating disorders, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.


Two studies link parks and poshness to lower depression and cognitive decline, for reasons still unclear. Paul Biegler reports.

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Feb 26, 2019

There’s a black hole that can let humans erase their past, astrophysicists say

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Forget the past.


However, a study from Berkley University suggests that entering a specific black hole in the universe can actually erase everything that had happened in a person’s past. Not only that, it could also give humans infinite futures!

But, how is that even possible?

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Feb 26, 2019

Air pollution shines from this alarming map

Posted by in category: sustainability

Those aren’t city lights.

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Feb 26, 2019

World’s Largest Bee Is Spotted For First Time In Decades

Posted by in category: futurism

Updated at 6:40 a.m. Friday

You might think the world’s biggest bee would be easy to find. But that’s not the case: Until recently, the last time anyone had reported seeing a Wallace’s giant bee living in the wild was in 1981. That changed in January, when the rare bee was spotted on an island of Indonesia.

The Wallace’s giant bee Megachile pluto towers over European honeybees. The female’s size has been recorded as at least an inch and a half long, with a tongue that’s nearly an inch long. Add to that a pair of gigantic mandibles, and it’s a bee like no other.

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Feb 26, 2019

These Are the World’s Healthiest Countries

Posted by in category: futurism

Six of the top 10 nations are in Europe.

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Feb 26, 2019

Alphabet invests in a start-up using beams of light on chips for super-fast A.I.

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A start-up called Lightmatter is working on a chip for artificial intelligence that will draw on optical technology that has previously been used to quickly send information around data centers.

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Feb 26, 2019

Scientists Create Alien DNA That can Store and Transmit Information

Posted by in category: alien life

A team of NASA researchers has created a new form of alien DNA which could be vital in the search and discovery of extraterrestrial life in our solar system and beyond.

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Feb 25, 2019

Jeff Bezos: In the Future, We’ll Live In “Giant Space Colonies”

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

Very few people are going to want to leave this planet permanently — it’s just too amazing.


“Ultimately what will happen, is this planet will be zoned residential and light industry,” he said. “This is the gem of the Solar System. Why would we do heavy industry here? It’s nonsense.”

Bezos also referenced the work of physicist Gerard O’Neill, who came up with the idea of a cylinder-shaped space settlement design known as an “O’Neill cylinder,” in which two counter-rotating cylinders would provide gravity for human settlers while mitigating gyroscopic effects.

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Feb 25, 2019

Space Theories That Will BLOW Your Mind!

Posted by in category: space

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Feb 25, 2019

This Pinoy-made app was designed for fishermen with no smartphones

Posted by in category: mobile phones

A smartphone app that helps people without smartphones? Read on to learn how it works: #SpaceApps #SpaceAppsPH


ISDApp is a Pinoy-designed app made especially for fishermen without smartphones. Learn how this app works—and why it won an award from NASA.

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