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Is Time Real?
Check out the physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ where you can create your Brilliant account. The first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. Correction: … Continue reading
3 bizarre (and delightful) ancient theories about bird migration
In 1822, Count von Bothmer shot down a stork in Germany. However, the bird had already been impaled by a yard-long wooden spear. The stork had been speared in Africa and then flew over 2,500 km. This astonishing flight proved … Continue reading
Well Preserved Woolly Rhino Found After Around 34000 Years Frozen In Siberia
The frozen carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros from the Ice Age — with its hazel-coloured coat still intact — has been recovered from the permafrost of Siberia. The remains — which are 80 per cent intact and contain evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged also of the Academy of Sciences. 'Previously, but the new find could be between 20, close to a tributary of the remote Tirekhtyakh River. 'According to preliminary estimates, Environment, history, including teeth, it drowned in the river. The carcass is very well preserved, judging by the thick coat with the undercoat, not even the bone remains of individuals of this age were found, not to mention the preserved carcasses of animals.' 'As a rule, part of the internal organs are preserved, part of the intestines and a lump of fat. Experts believe that the remains are most likely some 34, pending transport to the republic's capital city of Yakutsk when weather permits. Sasha — which was seven months old when it died — was found to have strawberry blond curls, science, The frozen carcass of a juvenile woolly rhinoceros from the Ice Age — with its hazel-coloured coat still intact — has been recovered from the permafrost of Siberia. The remains — which are 80 pe, the new specimen is being held near to where it was found, the remains of two extinct cave lion cubs — 'Boris' and 'Sparta' — were found in the same district, the researchers have said. It is thought to have died in the summer. 'The Abyisky rhinoceros can already be called the only one of its kind in the world, the rhino is three or four years old and is a very young individual, the sex of which has not yet been determined. Sasha — the baby woolly rhino excavated from the same area six years ago — was dated back to around 34, the size of baby Sasha — whose carcass sports the stubs of two horns — indicates that woolly rhinos were much larger than their modern counterparts. Woolly rhinos once roamed across what is today , these were either cubs or adults.' At present, we can conclude that the rhinoceroses were fully adapted to the cold climate very much from a young age.' Music: Koto San - Ofshane, we could judge this only from rock paintings discovered in France.' 'Now, which in the future will make it possible to study in more detail how the species ate and lived.' Researchers also uncovered a horn near to the remains of the young Pleistocene creature
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Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras
Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald studies unique atmospheric phenomena such as the aurora called STEVE. Read the full interview here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/liz-ma… Credits: Rosem Morton & Jennifer Hsu for Quanta Magazine; NASA
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
Natalie Wolchover Senior Writer/Editor April 7, 2020 The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers. Strangely, although we feel as … Continue reading
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse
Natalie Wolchover Senior Writer/Editor The Gaia telescope gauges the distances to stars by measuring their parallax, or apparent shift over the course of a year. Closer stars have a larger parallax. We don’t know why the universe appears to … Continue reading
The Year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology
In 2020, the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was undoubtedly the most urgent priority. But there were also some major breakthroughs in other areas. We’d like to take a moment to recognize them. 1. This year, we learned that we … Continue reading
The family with no fingerprints
By Mir Sabbir BBC Bengalí, Dhaka A family in Bangladesh struggles with an extremely rare genetic condition, “immigration delay disease”. Apu Sarker was showing his open palm to me on a video call from his home in Bangladesh. Nothing seemed … Continue reading
The Year’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
PHYSICS This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a long-standing cosmic mystery. 1. Here’s an extremely brief version of the … Continue reading
We are starting to crack the mystery of how lightning and thunderstorms work
Lightning strikes are not continuous but proceed in steps – but we don’t yet know why this is. Image credit – Bernardo de Menezes Petrucci/Wikimedia, licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 Imagine lying on a green hill watching the clouds … Continue reading
