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Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

For the past five years, Nautilus has asked scientists what they would be if they weren’t a scientist. I can now report what, above… Source: Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

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The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS – Nautilus

The first pieces of the brain’s “inner GPS” started coming to light in 1970. In the laboratories of University College London,… Source: The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS

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‘Matter waves’ move through one another but never share space – ScienceBlog.com

Ultracold disappearing act A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his students produced by colliding pairs of Bose Einstein condensates (BECs) … Continue reading

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What Is Reality?

QGR say: “What if the very fabric of space and time was a code, or a language? A team of physicists and mathematicians with Los Angeles based Quantum Gravity Research are developing a first-principles unified quantum gravity theory they call … Continue reading

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Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance. A sandwich of two graphene layers can conduct electrons without resistance if they are twisted at a ‘magic angle’’, physicists have discovered. The finding could prove to be a significant … Continue reading

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Cancer-Fighting Chemical Found in Human Skin Bacteria

A molecule produced by a strain of Staphylococcus epidermis interferes with DNA synthesis. Source: Cancer-Fighting Chemical Found in Human Skin Bacteria

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Nervous system puts the brakes on inflammation – ScienceBlog.com

Cells in the nervous system can “put the brakes” on the immune response to infections in the gut and lungs to prevent excessive inflammation, according to research by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists. This insight may one day lead to new … Continue reading

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Doomsday seed vault to get fortified with influx of $13 million — MustHaves.LA

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault — purposely isolated on a remote island some 800 miles from the North Pole — will be upgraded to make the concrete structure more resilient to the whims of weather and climate. The vault is … Continue reading

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Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta

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Methylation Aging Clock: An Update – Science Blog

Methylation of DNA is the best-known mode of epigenetic regulation (turning genes on and off).  Methylation patterns are stable unless they are actively changed, and can persist over decades, even across generations.   Four years ago, biostatistician Steve Horvath of UCLA … Continue reading

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