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What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? – Congrui Jin
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-if-cr… Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers and the tallest skyscrapers on earth. But it does have a … Continue reading
Our Brains’ Information Processing Capacity Is Constrained by a Constant but Limited Energy Supply
Our brains have an upper limit on how much they can process at once due to a constant but limited energy supply, according to a new UCL study using a brain imaging method that measures cellular metabolism. The study, published in … Continue reading
New Quantum Approach for Sharing Secrets Sets a Record With 11 Dimensions
An artistic impression sharing a secret using structured light. Credit: Wits University Wits Researchers have demonstrated a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst many parties, setting a new record for the highest dimensions and parties to date. Researchers … Continue reading
Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus. Updated at 10:36 a.m. ET on August 5, 2020. There’s a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told … Continue reading
There Are More Than Two Human Sexes
In high school biology, we learn that humans are born with either XX or XY chromosomes, and that a person’s internal and external sex organs match those chromosomes. It turns out, however, that sex isn’t that straightforward. Hosted by: Hank … Continue reading
Half the universe was missing… until now
Half of the ordinary baryonic matter has been tough to find but Fast Radio Bursts made it possible to detect the WHIM. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video! For 20% off go to https://kiwico.com/veritasium or use code VERITASIUM at … Continue reading
Study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between humans and dogs
Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages. Human brains process lexical meaning separately from the emotional prosody of speech at higher levels of the processing hierarchy. Dog brains can also … Continue reading
Running Backwards, Doing Laundry and Other Unusual Hobbies
Gardening, cooking, knitting, reading. We all have hobbies. But some people pursue more unique pastimes. Like what? Well, some win more claw machine prizes than they know what to do with, set world records for running backwards and travel great … Continue reading
The mysterious echo from the Sun: the IBEX Ribbon | Unsolved Mystery in Physics
Go to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. In 2009 the IBEX satellite detected an excess of atoms reflected back from a particular … Continue reading
People Are Posting ‘Meanwhile In’ Memes That Hilariously Summarize Different Countries (40 Pics)
‘Meanwhile, in X’ is a viral meme series based on the participial phrase ‘Meanwhile in…,’ a literary device that allows an easy segue between two concurrent events in different places. Meanwhile In Australia Meanwhile In India Source: People Are Posting … Continue reading
A taste for humans: How disease-carrying mosquitoes evolved to specialize in biting us – ScienceBlog.com
There are two paths. One leads to the arm of Noah Rose, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. The other leads to a guinea pig. For some species of mosquitoes, their preference for humans reveals something about their evolution … Continue reading
Photo of COVID-19 victim in Indonesia sparks fascination—and denial
Coronavirus victim wrapped in plastic shows what many didn’t want the populace to see. The body of a suspected covid-19 victim lies in an Indonesian hospital. After the patient died, nurses wrapped the body in layers of plastic and applied … Continue reading
