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I spent years assuming my personality was fixed — then I learned what neuroplasticity actually means and realised I had been maintaining myself like a finished product instead of a living system - Space Daily

I spent years assuming my personality was fixed — then I learned what neuroplasticity actually means and realised I had been maintaining myself like a finished product instead of a living system - Space Daily

The adult human brain contains somewhere between 86 and 100 billion neurons. Each of those neurons can form thousands of synaptic connections. For most of the twentieth century, scientists believed that after a certain point in childhood, the architecture of …

A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age - ScienceAlert

A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age - ScienceAlert

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a sophisticated stone-tool industry, according to a new study of a crystal-studded rib bone found in China.

Star Trek’s Biggest Mystery Was Answered By One Forgotten Episode - Yahoo

Star Trek’s Biggest Mystery Was Answered By One Forgotten Episode - Yahoo

One of the coolest things about Star Trek is that this franchise has had plenty of world-building from the very … Continue reading "Star Trek’s Biggest Mystery Was Answered By One Forgotten Episode"

Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion - Phys.org

Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion - Phys.org

A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the other. Led by Emma Chickles at MIT, the researchers revealed one of the clearest views yet of how ultracompact white dwarf binaries ex…

The human genome contains traces of ancient viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago — and some of those viral leftovers were later repurposed into genes that help make human pregnancy possible - Space Daily

The human genome contains traces of ancient viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago — and some of those viral leftovers were later repurposed into genes that help make human pregnancy possible - Space Daily

Both halves of this claim are well supported, and neither rests on a single study. About 8 percent of the human genome, by the standard estimate, consists of sequences left behind by ancient retroviruses. And among those sequences are a small number of genes …

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate - Yahoo

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate - Yahoo

"We need to be extremely cautious."

Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea - Phys.org

Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea - Phys.org

A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom that caves and other subterranean ecosystems are evolutionary dead ends.

The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps - CNN

The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps - CNN

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new research.

The Emptiest Places in the Universe Might Contain Its Best Secrets - WIRED

The Emptiest Places in the Universe Might Contain Its Best Secrets - WIRED

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.