Every black hole contains a new universe

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A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries.

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AI uprising: humans will be outsourced, not
obliterated

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Forget about The Terminator, the real problem with AI (artificial intelligence) is what to do when it meets your boss or even your friends.

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Prosthetic retina offers simple solution to
restoring sight

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A device which could restore sight to patients with one of the most common causes of blindness in the developed world is being developed in an international partnership.

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Teaching creativity to children from a galaxy
away

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Playing make-believe is more than a childhood pasttime. According to psychologists, it's also crucial to building creativity, giving a child the ability to consider alternative realities and perspectives.

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Computing experts unveil superefficient 'inexact'
chip

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Researchers have unveiled an "inexact" computer chip that challenges the industry's dogmatic 50-year pursuit of accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by allowing for occasional errors.

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Suspicion resides in 2 regions of the brain

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.

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Just stop it

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An article in yesterday?s Wall Street Journal says that people nowadays whine too much and that some therapists are adopting new ?tough love? strategies that tells them to cut it

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All cancer cells are not created equal

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Some cell types control continued tumor growth, others prepare the way for metastasis.

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Quite hexagonal!

I'm of the personal opinion that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules, often known as PAHs, are one of the finest proofs that the Universe is beautiful. Carbon, at the molecular level, organises itself into geometrically perfect hexagons. It doesn't even need any energy to do this. It does it all by itself, because this perfect hexagonal geometry is actually the lowest energy state of the atoms themselves. Just beautiful.

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Quite hexagonal

I'm of the personal opinion that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules, often known as PAHs, are one of the finest proofs that the Universe is beautiful. Carbon, at the molecular level, organises itself into geometrically perfect hexagons. It doesn't even need any energy to do this. It does it all by itself, because this perfect hexagonal geometry is actually the lowest energy state of the atoms themselves. Just beautiful.

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