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How Doctor Who, Star Trek and Stranger Things are making a major scientific error about alternate realities – Radio Times

Alternate universes and alternate dimensions are not the same thing – and understanding the difference could lead to intriguing new sci-fi stories Source: How Doctor Who, Star Trek and Stranger Things are making a major scientific error about alternate realities

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Why Does Everyone Hate Pigeons?

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Why you should love gross science

What can we learn from the slimy, smelly side of life? In this playful talk, science journalist Anna Rothschild shows us the hidden wisdom of “gross stuff” and explains why avoiding the creepy underbelly of nature, medicine and technology closes … Continue reading

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Deadpole: Photos by Kilian Schönberger – Faith is Torment

This series by Cologne-based photographer Kilian Schönberger focuses on the changes occuring in the spruce forests that border Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. Due to heavy storms, climatic changes and acid rain in past years, the trees were significantly weakened and … Continue reading

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Unique Weathering Pattern Creates Fascinating Geometric Ripples on a Chain Link Fence – Colossal

Over the past few years, @Ben_On_The_Moon has photographed his chain link fence due to a mysterious weathering pattern that has caused groups of concentric rings to appear on the upper side of the fence’s segments. His macro photographs emphasize the … Continue reading

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This Quantum ‘Sixth Sense’ Could Allow Birds to Navigate Earth’s Magnetic Field

How do migrating birds know where to go? New research suggests “spooky action at a distance” might be involved.

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Amazing Real Time MRI Footage That Shows How the Lips, Tongue and Throat Move While Beatboxing

Researcher Dr. Jens Frahm of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttigen, Germany who showed how the tongue moves while speaking and singing via real time MRI, had beatboxer Gaucho (Timo Schnepf) demonstrate how the tongue moves while freestyling using the very same impressive technology. … Continue reading

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A Flock of Angry Geese Chase a Slow Moving Alligator Across Golf Course at a PGA Invitational

During the second annual Christie’s Critters Invitational on The Champion Course at PGA National, golfers were caught off guard when they saw a giant alligator cross the golf course. Even more amazing was the flock of angry geese engaging in … Continue reading

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How poverty changes your mind-set – ScienceBlog.com

The proportion of the global population living on less than $1.90 per person per day has fallen—from 18 percent in 2008 to 11 percent in 2013, according to the World Bank. In the United States, however, the poverty rate has … Continue reading

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There’s a genetic explanation for why warmer nests turn turtles female

Scientists have found a temperature-responsive gene that controls young turtles’ sex fate. Source: There’s a genetic explanation for why warmer nests turn turtles female

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