Bookmarks tagged “science”
39 bookmarks tagged “science”
How Do Traffic Signals Work? — Practical Engineering
If you live in a major city, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations: traffic. In city driving, the journey is rarely better than the destination. In most cases, we just want to get where we’re going. Traffic is not just frustrating, but it has cons
Separating logic and language
Language isn’t necessary for logical reasoning, cognitive neuroscientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute find. Evelina Fedorenko and Hope Kean discovered people can perform well on tasks that require logical reasoning even if their language abilities are severely impaired.
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds
“We wanted to see if a simple walk might lead to more free-flowing thoughts and more creativity.”
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? | Quanta Magazine
Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven ...
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech
Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system.
Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game
John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou.
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future - The Verge
The Jevons paradox originated in the coal era, but it has a lot to teach us about the future of self-driving cars.
What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate c
ESA - Telling time on the Moon
A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev
First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. The approach could be used to study the healthy and unhealthy brain or test drugs.
The moral imperative to learn from diverse phenomenal experiences | Aeon Es
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling
The Coolest Library on Earth | Hakai Magazine
At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.
To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals | Aeon Essays
As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals
Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics · GitHub
A look at the open source artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) tools used in the nuclear fusion ignition breakthrough at Lawerence Livermore Labs.
How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer | Quanta Magazine
The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.
Does Money Buy Happiness?
In most of the world, yes. In the United States, not any more.
How far behind a plane is its noise? · Caffeinspiration
If you’re ever near a relatively low flying airplane, you may have noticed that it sounds like it’s in a different spot in the sky than where it actually is. You can hear the loud engines, and your ears tell you it should be in one place, but your eyes tell you it’s clearly well
Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head - Th
They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.