A Möbius strip made with paper and adhesive tape. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur between inside and out. This is the realm of the Möbius …
Read More »
New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear ‘voices’ in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external. “This idea’s been around for 50 years, but it’s been very difficult to test because inner speech is inherently private,” says Thomas Whitford, a psychology researcher at the University of New South Wales. Using EEG (electroencephalography) to measure brainwaves, …
Read More »
Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis for some topics are more impactful than others. One of the most hotly debated topics of late in the astrobiological community has been whether or not life can exist on Venus – specifically in its cloud layers, some of which have …
Read More »
Battlefield 6 recently prompted a Reddit user to reflect on his gaming preferences. (Image source: OpenAI) Battlefield is now over 20 years old, and many of its fans are middle-aged. Recently, one fan caught attention on Reddit by sharing a realization he had while playing Battlefield 6. Just like preferences for certain foods or hobbies, gaming tastes can change over …
Read More »
The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, memories stay as sharp as they were 30 or more years in the past. Carol Siegler, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, is …
Read More »Wave or Particle? Physicists Crack a 50-Year-Old Quantum Puzzle SciTechDaily Quantum study harnesses wave-particle duality for innovative imaging Open Access Government Quantum Formula Maps Wave-Particle Duality With 100% Accuracy Quantum Zeitgeist Source link
Read More »