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Jun 19, 2018
Solar Cells Can Now Generate Power From Raindrops
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: solar power, sustainability
Jun 19, 2018
This personal helicopter from the 1950s
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Jun 18, 2018
Google can use AI to predict when you’ll die
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Jun 18, 2018
Inside the controversial new surgery to transplant human wombs
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Jun 18, 2018
A Neuroscientist Explains What Happens to Your Brain When You Don’t Sleep
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Sleep deprivation affects nearly all parts of your brain, but it is most detrimental to simple cognitive functions that we take for granted, such as memory and staying alert.
Ph.D. neuroscience candidate Shannon Odell says scientific research suggests that sleep deprivation majorly reduces cognitive performance. Studies have shown that patients have significantly reduced their thinking ability after just one night of sleep deprivation, specifically in the hippocampus, also known as the memory center.
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Jun 18, 2018
Colony ship to nearest star only needs crew of 100 to survive
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Jun 18, 2018
Researchers capture best ever evidence of rare black hole
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star.
There are various types of black hole lurking throughout the Universe: massive stars create stellar-mass black holes when they die, while galaxies host supermassive black holes at their centres, with masses equivalent to millions or billions of Suns.
Lying between these extremes is a more retiring member of the black hole family: intermediate-mass black holes. Thought to be seeds that will eventually grow to become supermassive, these black holes are especially elusive, and thus very few robust candidates have ever been found.
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