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Dinosaur relative’s genome linked to mammals – ScienceBlog.com

Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence the genome of the tuatara – a rare reptile whose ancestors once roamed the earth with dinosaurs. The … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Assembly of the largest ever thermonuclear fusion reactor ITER begins

In France, the assembly of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), which will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, has started on July 28, 2020. The largest nuclear fusion reactor to date begins construction next to the … Continue reading →

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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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Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World

Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with various large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. That is the conclusion of scientists in Japan and the US, who … Continue reading →

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WHO World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day is observed on July 28 to increase awareness of hepatitis. Source: Pin on International Days

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COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED!

Bottom line: Masks work. They are safe for almost everyone to wear, and the more people that wear them along with adhering to physical distancing and other strategies, then that’s more lives we’ll save. But there’s still a lot of … Continue reading →

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Einstein’s divorce letters

Tibees This time we look at Einstein’s messy divorce from Mileva in order to pursue his cousin Elsa. My previous video on Einstein’s love letters: https://youtu.be/YDOWMgnWppA All letters shown in this video have been transcribed and translated (from German). Timestamps: … Continue reading →

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Astrophysicists Construct Most Complete 3D Map of the Universe, Fill Gaps in Cosmological History

An international consortium of scientists has analyzed, as part of a vast program of cosmological surveys, several million galaxies and quasars, thus retracing a more continuous history of the Universe and offering a better understanding of the mechanisms of its … Continue reading →

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