Newly Formed Neurons Help Brain “Catalog Memories In Time”
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The human brain generates 1,400 new neurons per day, but their function had until now remained unknown.
Sometimes it can feel every day is...
In a Valley
In a valley that was once covered in water before the ice caps stole it all away, save a stream that passed through the...
SpaceX Will Attempt Its Latest Rocket Launch Today – Here’s How To Watch It...
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SpaceX hasn't yet performed a successful barge landing.
Here we go again: SpaceX will attempt to launch the SES-9 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket...
Scientists Create Synthetic Bacteria With Only 473 Genes
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A team, led by synthetic biologists at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California, have come up with an answer...
Monkey Takes Man’s GoPro And Goes On A Selfie Rampage
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As a general rule, camera equipment and small monkeys don’t mix.
Case in point: The footage shot at Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix,...
Gene That Allowed Life To Evolve Beyond Bacterial Slime Identified
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An ancestral gene coding for the synthesis of enzymes called kinases played a vital role in the evolution of all complex life...
$1bn Bank Heist Foiled By A Rather Hilarious Mistake
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When there’s billions of dollars on the table and you’ve been snooping around the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, make sure you...
This Week in Science (Feb. 21 – 28)
This is a collection of the 10 best and most popular stories from science and technology over the past 7 days. Scroll down and...
Creationism is dead in Iceland
0.0% of Icelanders aged 25 or younger believe that “God” created the world, according to a new poll. The finding comes from a survey commissioned by the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, Siðmennt, (an IHEU Member Organization). The poll found that 93.9% of young Icelanders assent to the Big Bang theory. 6.1% weren’t sure, or had other ideas, and 0.0% of respondents [...]
Watch Physicist Brian Greene Explain Gravitational Waves To Stephen Colbert
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene makes an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the two banter about the historic discovery of gravitational...