Tag: science
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Visualizing the hours of daylight in one year
Reddit user harpalss used animation software D3 to create a beautiful visualization of the changing patterns of daylight in one year. This is how the user describes it: Equation to calculate the hours of daylight for a given day of year and latitude can be found here. The animation was built with D3. Both the northern…
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Researchers are developing a new vaccine to treat Lyme Disease
Scientists are developing a vaccine to help treat Lyme disease. Humans can get Lyme disease through the transmission of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium from the bite of an infected tick. Called VLA15, the vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to make antibodies that ward off 6 of the most common types of Lyme-causing bacteria…
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Nasa unveils Pumpkin sun just in time for Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has posted a photo of the sun that looks like a massive flaming jack-o’-lantern. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shot the photo earlier this month. The fiery slits in the image reveal the most active parts of the sun. Writes NASA: Active regions on the sun combined to look something…
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Google achieves “quantum supremacy” with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor
Google confirmed that it has officially achieved achieved quantum supremacy with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor. Writes Engineering Director Hartmut Neven on Google’s blog: Today, the scientific journal Nature has published the results of Google’s efforts to build a quantum computer that can perform a task no classical computer can; this is known in the field…
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How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a climate strike movement
“No one is too small to make a difference,” says 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Ever since the Swede took to the Swedish Parliament last year to call for stronger climate action against global warming, she’s inspired similar strikes across the globe. On Friday, thousands of students skipped school and adults skipped work in cities…
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Connecting human brains to computers
“You could just think your query and download the relevant knowledge directly in your mind.” Forget Ritalin. Forget Google and Evernote acting as our second brains holding all the information we can’t. And instead, prepare for brain implants where the mind melds with machines. We don’t even have to type, click, or touch anything. We…
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Scientist Madeline Lancaster grows ‘mini-brains’
Neurological biologist Madeline Lancaster develops cerebral organoids or mini-brains, which she describes as “three-dimensional neural tissues generated from human stem cells which allow us to model human brain development.” In other words, organoids can model the architecture of a human embryonic brain. According to the Financial Times who interviewed the scientist, each organoid is about…
