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What drove the lunar dynamo?
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Research supports theory that the moon’s molten core was likely sustained by an alternative power source. New evidence from an ancient lunar rock suggests that the moon once harbored a long-lived...
The pupils are the windows to the mind
Saturday, 28 January 2012
The eyes are the window into the soul—or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science....
Brainiac babies
Saturday, 28 January 2012
A Northwestern University study has found that the evidence for intuitive physics occurs in infants as young as two months—the earliest age at which testing can occur. Intuitive physics includes...
How the craziest f#@!ing "theory of everything" got published and promoted
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Physicists have been working for decades on a "theory of everything," one that unites quantum mechanics and relativity. Apparently, they were being too modest. Yesterday saw publication of a press...
Making memories last
Friday, 27 January 2012
Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses". But how do these synapses stay strong and keep memories alive for decades? Neuroscientists at the Stowers...
Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality
Friday, 27 January 2012
New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial...
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How does one scientifically disprove something?
In the article titled Buddhism Without the Hocus-Pocus in the The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 13, 2012, page B4, unfortunately behind a subscription wall) by Owen Flanagan, a professor of...
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