When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth’s climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar System, most people’s minds go to the Apollo era, when the US space agency repeatedly put humans on the Moon. But Apollo was not the agency’s first steps into space, as newly restored photos from the pre-Apollo era …
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One Teen’s Incredible “Mental Time Travel” Memory System
One Teen’s Incredible “Mental Time Travel” Memory System A paper recently published in a behavioral sciences journal describes a high school student’s hyperthymesia, an extraordinary ability to retrieve autobiographical memories. Teenager With Hyperthymesia Exhibits Extraordinary Mental Time Travel Abilities: The subject of the study, referred to as TL, was a 17-year-old high school student in France when she came to …
Read More »Liverpool 1 Arsenal 0: Incredible Szoboszlai free kick from distance wins it at Anfield
A sensational free kick from Dominik Szoboszlai gave Liverpool a 1-0 win over Arsenal in a tight game at Anfield. Last season’s top two met having both won their first two games of the season, so while too early for a title decider, the game gave us an idea of where both teams are. It proved a close encounter, with …
Read More »Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, when something gets warmed up, heat tends to spread outward before eventually dissipating. But things are a little different in the world of superfluid quantum gas. For the first time, MIT scientists have successfully imaged how heat actually travels in a wave, known as a “second sound,” through this exotic …
Read More »Dave Canales: Adam Thielen trade opens “incredible opportunities” for other receivers
Word of a potential trade involving wide receiver Adam Thielen was swirling for a while before the Panthers pulled the trigger on a deal sending him back to the Vikings on Wednesday. The move made a lot of sense for a Vikings team short on early-season certainty at wideout behind Justin Jefferson and it showed that the Panthers have faith …
Read More »World’s most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun’s corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery that powers the ferocious flares that routinely blast out from our star. “It’s a landmark moment in solar science,” said Cole Tamburri of the University …
Read More »Princess Kate reveals new look as she debuts incredible new hair colour | Royal | News
Princess Kate looked incredible on Sunday as she was spotted with her hair looking blonder than ever before. The Princess of Wales was all smiles as she debuted her new look on a car journey to Sunday service with Prince William and their three children in Scotland. As she sat in the passenger seat of the car driven by The …
Read More »This Incredible Brain Implant Can Decode Inner Thoughts Into Speech : ScienceAlert
Scientists are making significant strides forward in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, and a newly developed system can translate our thoughts into text or sound. It’s essentially an inner speech decoder, developed by researchers from institutions across the US. In tests on four volunteers with severe paralysis, the decoder hit an accuracy rate of up to 74 percent in translating thoughts …
Read More »Colleagues, coaches, celebrities pay incredible tribute to Lee Corso
It will surely be an emotional scene next Saturday in Columbus when sports broadcasting legend Lee Corso puts on the headgear for the last time and retires from College GameDay and the ESPN airwaves. But fans got a glimpse of what was to come this weekend thanks to a network television special. ESPN aired a tribute show to Corso, looking back on …
Read More »Incredible Fossil Reveals Two-Headed Creature From The Dinosaur Age : ScienceAlert
Rare malformations can cause animals to grow two heads – and it seems that kind of thing has been happening for millions of years. In 2006, paleontologists in China described a two-headed fossil from the age of dinosaurs. Hyphalosaurus is a small, aquatic reptile that lived more than 120 million years ago, and is known from thousands of fossils. But …
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