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"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end."

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the brain’s primary taste cortex, overturning decades of assumptions about how flavor is built.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42383720

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

Please don't cast a vote based just on the domain – do read the article.

Used heavily in early medicine and at times for opposing aims, the pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections.

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People in small village of Jaškovo celebrate after re-claiming Guinness world record with line of almost 9,000 baked strudels

‘If it’s taking longer, ask yourself why.’

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. In two Nature papers published Sept. 3, an international team of 22 groups, co-led by three Princeton University neuroscience labs, charted the activity of more than 600,000 neurons as mice performed a decision-making task. The resulting dataset offers an unprecedented view of how distributed neural networks work together across the brain to guide behavior.

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to upgrade them into soft glowing night lights in a range of hues, with the use of nanoparticles.

For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250827153505/https://www.404media.co/scientists-make-breakthrough-in-solving-the-mystery-of-lifes-origin/

Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control.

The origin of the Bill of Rights was less a principled and honorable declaration of the founders’ commitment to fundamental liberties and more a compromise to get the states to ratify the new Constitution of the United States.

Of special interest to Americans, of course.

A large balloon lands in a residential street lined with cars and telegraph poles and wires.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40728002

S4 E18. Will an AMR500 supercharged Kubota diesel Honda insight outrun a stock Honda insight? [16:05]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40733183

How Indonesian Instant Noodles Became a Nigerian Sensation [19:37]

A landmark church in Sweden began a two-day journey to its new home on Tuesday, 19 August, time-lapse video shows. The Kiruna Church has been relocated to save it from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine. It was slowly moved down an Arctic road, part of a 30-year project to relocate thousands of people and buildings from the city in the country's far north. The 600-tonne, 113-year-old church was lifted from its foundations and onto a specially built trailer. Kiruna Church is one of Sweden's largest wooden structures, often voted its most beautiful. It will travel three miles to a brand-new Kiruna city centre at a speed of 500 metres/hour.

A half century ago ago, Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word “fractal” and pioneered a new type of geometry.

As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees between night and day weren't enough, personnel at future Moon bases will be at significant peril from moonquakes.

Archeoplasty is a project that tells the story of plastic pollution through the finds that the sea returns, transforming them into a concrete testimony of our impact on the environment.

The site is in Italian, but it can be translated using the translation feature in Firefox.

Interactive visualization of technological history