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That little voice in your head — if you have it — may be aligning your thoughts | ScienceBlog.com
It’s not uncommon these days to have some time alone with your thoughts. But what does that sound like, if it sounds like anything at all? Many people feel their thoughts take the form of an inner voice, a sort of … Continue reading
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
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