Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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Cybsled
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Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs' demise
Remarkable specimens shed light on the minutes and hours following the Earth-changing asteroid strike.
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Merrith
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Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs' demise
Remarkable specimens shed light on the minutes and hours following the Earth-changing asteroid strike.
Just read a big article in the New Yorker about this.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
This ranch is ~80 miles from mine. They find dinosaurs north, south, east, and west of me. I really need to find one on my place but I have no clue how to find any fossils except for petrified wood. I've probably been chucking tyrannosaurus teeth at bull's heads and shit.
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Could All Our Scientific Knowledge Come Tumbling Down Like A House Of Cards?
We've put so much together about the Universe. Could it all come tumbling down?
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Interesting read
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Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal
Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, said today: ‘The autopsy shows beautifully preserved internal organs.
‘Samples of liquid blood were taken from heart vessels - it was preserved in the liquid state for 42,000 years thanks to favorable burial conditions and permafrost.
‘The muscle tissues preserved their natural reddish color.
‘We can now claim that this is the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found in the world.’
Dr. Grigoryev revealed in an interview with TASS that the foal is in an exceptional condition without any visible damage.
‘This is extremely rare for paleontological finds, because some of them are either incomplete, fragmented, with serious body deformations or strongly mummified,’ said the expert.
‘The foal’s hair is intact on its head, legs, and part of its body.
‘Its tail and mane are black, the rest of the foal’s body is bay.
‘Having preserved hair is another scientific sensation as all previous ancient horses were found without hair.’
Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, said today: ‘The autopsy shows beautifully preserved internal organs.
‘Samples of liquid blood were taken from heart vessels - it was preserved in the liquid state for 42,000 years thanks to favorable burial conditions and permafrost.
‘The muscle tissues preserved their natural reddish color.
‘We can now claim that this is the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found in the world.’
Dr. Grigoryev revealed in an interview with TASS that the foal is in an exceptional condition without any visible damage.
‘This is extremely rare for paleontological finds, because some of them are either incomplete, fragmented, with serious body deformations or strongly mummified,’ said the expert.
‘The foal’s hair is intact on its head, legs, and part of its body.
‘Its tail and mane are black, the rest of the foal’s body is bay.
‘Having preserved hair is another scientific sensation as all previous ancient horses were found without hair.’
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Asshat wormie
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Folding Revolution
New deep-learning approach predicts protein structure from amino acid sequence
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And now a little behavior science:
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How the ‘Ikea effect’ subtly influences how you spend
Having customers do most of the work, feel great about it, and at the same time perceive they have attained ‘greater value for money’ is the Holy Grail for companies. Here’s why.
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Dark Matter Detector Makes Incredible Neutrino Observation
Two-neutrino double electron capture is an exceedingly rare particle interaction that was first theorized in 1955 and “has escaped detection for decades,” according to the paperpublished in Nature. In the process, two protons in the atomic nucleus spontaneously and simultaneously absorb a pair of electrons orbiting the nucleus, releasing a pair of neutrinos. The experimental signature of the event is a barrage of x-rays and electrons resulting from other electrons orbiting the atom replacing the two absorbed by the nucleus. And when I say rare, I mean rare. The average amount of time it would take half of the xenon atoms in a sample to undergo this reaction is 1.8 × 1022years, according to the paper. That’s roughly a trillion times the age of the Universe.
After 214 days of observing (177 days of usable data), the researchers’ analysis revealed approximately 126 two-neutrino double electron capture events.
This is an incredible scientific accomplishment. “It’s the longest half-life ever measured directly,” Ph.D student Chiara Capelli from the University of Zurich who works on XENON told Gizmodo
Two-neutrino double electron capture is an exceedingly rare particle interaction that was first theorized in 1955 and “has escaped detection for decades,” according to the paperpublished in Nature. In the process, two protons in the atomic nucleus spontaneously and simultaneously absorb a pair of electrons orbiting the nucleus, releasing a pair of neutrinos. The experimental signature of the event is a barrage of x-rays and electrons resulting from other electrons orbiting the atom replacing the two absorbed by the nucleus. And when I say rare, I mean rare. The average amount of time it would take half of the xenon atoms in a sample to undergo this reaction is 1.8 × 1022years, according to the paper. That’s roughly a trillion times the age of the Universe.
After 214 days of observing (177 days of usable data), the researchers’ analysis revealed approximately 126 two-neutrino double electron capture events.
This is an incredible scientific accomplishment. “It’s the longest half-life ever measured directly,” Ph.D student Chiara Capelli from the University of Zurich who works on XENON told Gizmodo
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My wife and I went to Ikea for the first time about a month ago. Maybe if we were shopping for something that we actually needed I would feel different, but I found the store layout obnoxious. I also quickly noted there wasn't a single guy there by himself.
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This was an informative read (though a bit dry) for anyone interested in neutrinos. It's more about the history of the theories, personalities, and historical episodes surrounding them than the science per se, although there's plenty of that.
Neutrino - Frank Close
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Something about their stats doesn't add up (or I am misunderstanding the experiment).
And when I say rare, I mean rare. The average amount of time it would take half of the xenon atoms in a sample to undergo this reaction is 1.8 × 1022years, according to the paper. That’s roughly a trillion times the age of the Universe.
After 214 days of observing (177 days of usable data), the researchers’ analysis revealed approximately 126 two-neutrino double electron capture events.
And when I say rare, I mean rare. The average amount of time it would take half of the xenon atoms in a sample to undergo this reaction is 1.8 × 1022years, according to the paper. That’s roughly a trillion times the age of the Universe.
After 214 days of observing (177 days of usable data), the researchers’ analysis revealed approximately 126 two-neutrino double electron capture events.
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They used 3.2 TONS of xenon in the sample. 126 atoms in a sample size that big undergoing the reaction adds up just fine.
A·vo·ga·dro's num·ber
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A·vo·ga·dro's num·ber
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- the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance, equal to 6.023 × 10^23.
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This popped up on my recommended list today, it's a lecture about supervolcanoes in the pacific northwest. Didn't know this series before but I ended up watching the whole thing, it's really interesting and well presented. Might be of interest to some people here.
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Playing ‘Pokémon’ as a kid may have rewired your brain
If you played Pokémon video games extensively as a kid, there's a good chance that a specific region of your brain gets fired up when you see the characters now. In a recent study, researchers from Stanford University showed test subjects hundreds of Pokémon characters. As you might expect, the...
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Doing anything as a kid has rewired your brain whether it's sports, gaming, watching TV or skateboarding.
Playing ‘Pokémon’ as a kid may have rewired your brain
If you played Pokémon video games extensively as a kid, there's a good chance that a specific region of your brain gets fired up when you see the characters now. In a recent study, researchers from Stanford University showed test subjects hundreds of Pokémon characters. As you might expect, the...
But I do think that hardcore gamers have brains that feed on efficiency, game mechanics and reward loops more than just about anyone.
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Cybsled
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Rapidly spreading fungus + funnel web spider venom production by said fungus = monkaS
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GM fungus rapidly kills 99% of malaria mosquitoes, study suggests
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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