Do you see numbers as colors? Do you hear smells? Then congrats, you’ve got synesthesia. Over the past 30 years… a growing body of evidence has shown that synesthesia has a physical basis—for example, the brains of synesthetes are wired differently, and the condition is highly heritable, which indicates there is a genetic component. In […]
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ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet’s oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today. This strange picture is emerging from efforts to pin […]
Walking through doorways causes forgetting: According to a new study, walking through a doorway helps your brain forget what you were about to do. “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains. -Read more about it right here. […]
University of Washington researchers have created a technology that could allow users to have e-mails beamed directly to their eyeballs, just like in Torchwood: Children of Earth (and Terminator before it). But in its current form, users will need to be able to decipher morse code. The technology, which can display (or not display) an […]
For the past three decades (and even a little more!), people from all around the world have eagerly followed the tale of the Star Wars Saga as told on the big screen by George Lucas and on paper by countless other authors. But never before has the story been used in an exhibition to teach […]
If there’s an awards ceremony for material of the year, you might expect graphene would sweep it for 2011. But researchers at a Californian lab are making a late bid with what they are billing as the world’s lightest material. The as-yet unnamed material has a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimetre, which is […]
I think Raiden would approve of this… [Via]
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.) [TED]
A musical celebration of the importance and inspirational qualities of space exploration (human and robotic), as well as a look at some of the amazing worlds in our solar system. Featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Carolyn Porco. “Onward to the Edge” is the 12th installment in the Symphony of Science series. [Symphony of […]