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Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How a Maya Calendar Works
A cycle featured in Maya calendars has been a mystery pretty much since it was rediscovered and its deciphering began in the 1940s.
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Beyond Human: A Billion Years of Evolution and the Fate of Our Species
Our lifespans might feel like a long time by human standards, but to the Earth it's the blink of an eye. Even the entirety of human history represents a tiny slither of the vast chronology for our planet. We often think about geological time when looking back into the past, but today we look ahead. What might happen on our planet in the next billion years?
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How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
Mysterious “islands” help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole
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Scientists Have Proposed a New Particle That Is a Portal to a 5th Dimension
The path to dark matter and other fundamental enigmas may be through a warped extra dimension, according to a new study that proposes a new theory of the universe.
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A deadly illness left Reuben with time on his hands, and made him one of the world's few solo watchmakers
Reuben Schoots is building a mechanical watch entirely by hand — a feat accomplished only by a handful of people in the past century. But he is learning more than just a lost craft.
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Flow of time is just an illusion
Many good stories begin with this magical phrase, but have you ever thought that "what is the story of time?" Does time exist? We always say time can be spent, time is money, we waste time, we are trying to save time, but what do we really know about the time? Is time an illusion? According to physicist Brian Greene, "all the time exist at once in spacetime"
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There is no such time as '12pm'
An audience member writes that "12pm" does not exist. Are they right? ABC Language researcher Tiger Webb investigates.
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Yukon to make Daylight Saving Time permanent after final time change Sunday
The news comes as B.C. also mulls its own permanent Daylight Saving Time, which the premier wants to do with the western U.S. states in tow.
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How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years
Leap years were devised in Julius Caesar's time, to fix the pesky problem that Earth's year isn't exactly 365 days. But 15 centuries later, our calendars were still slightly askew.
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Geology Makes You Time-Literate
A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness. By Marcia Bjornerud.
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Gamma-Rays Spewed As a Black Hole Forms Might 'Reverse Time'
They seem to reverse time. By Yasemin Saplakoglu.
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The case for going to bed at 2:30 am
There’s nothing virtuous about “early to bed, early to rise.” By Kate Shellnutt. (Feb. 27, 2017)
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Will we ever be able to freeze time?
Stasis is a way of pausing physical and chemical processes – including those of life. It could be a way for us to save the critically ill, or allow ultra-long space missions. By Peter Ray Allison.
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Time Loop at Hanging Rock
While there was no actual disappearance of schoolgirls at Hanging Rock either around the turn of the century or in the 19-teens when Lindsay attended Clyde School, there was a traumatic disappearance in Lindsay’s near future when she wrote her manuscript: none other than the cutting of her final chapter, with its beauty and strangeness and its mathematical-physical musings. By Eric Wargo.
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Reversing cause and effect is no trouble for quantum computers
Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused—but a quantum computer wouldn't.
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Study Shows How The Human Body Can Detect Events 1-10 Seconds Before They Occur
Over the past few decades a significant and noteworthy amount of scientific research has emerged contributing to the notion that human precognition could very well be real, and that we all might possess this potential -amongst various other extended human capacities. precognition. By Arjun Walia.
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The Observer at Infinity: J.W. Dunne vs. the Volcano
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity” – Jean Cocteau. By Aaron Dabbah.
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The illusion of time
Andrew Jaffe probes Carlo Rovelli’s study arguing that physics deconstructs our sense of time.
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The Preciousness of Time
A Stephen Hawking Tribute
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Old tradition: Stopping clocks after a loved one dies.
In Victorian times, when someone died in the house and there was a clock in the room, you had to stop the clock at the death hour or the family of the household would have bad luck. Its origin seems to emanate from Germany and Great Britain. They believed that when a person died time stood still for them and a new period of existence started without time. To permit time to continue was to invite the spirit of the deceased to remain and haunt unendingly. Stopping time was a way to allow the deceased to move on.”
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