Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 10 stories of the week of Sept 22 - 29th, 2017
"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds." - Carl Sagan
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How flying seriously messes with your mind
Travelling by plane has become an everyday activity – but our bodies and brains are still affected by it.
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Submitted on September 22nd 2017 by estherschindler
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2 +16y+ ago
Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia
Divers found octopuses building structures out of shells, socializing with neighbors.
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Submitted on September 28th 2017 by kxh with 1 comments
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3 +16y+ ago
Mind-reading technology should not be used to solve crime
Most people would agree they have a right to privacy, a right not to incriminate themselves, and a right to freedom of thought. Brain fingerprinting threatens all three.
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Submitted on September 25th 2017 by kxh
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UAE Announces $140 Million BIG-Designed Mars Science City
The UAE has launched the Mars Science City project, a city that will serve as a “viable and realistic model” for studying the human occupation of Mars.
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Submitted on September 27th 2017 by puntacanna
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Russia Will Team Up with NASA to Build a Lunar Space Station
In a major space policy decision, Russia will promise to join a NASA-led effort to build an international human outpost in the vicinity of the Moon. Russian industry sources told Popular Mechanics that the head of Roscosmos State Corporation, Igor Komarov, is expected to announce the news next week during a meeting with other space agencies at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.
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Submitted on September 26th 2017 by distant
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6 +16y+ ago
A brain-system that builds confidence in what we see, hear and touch
A series of experiments at EPFL provide conclusive evidence that the brain uses a single mechanism (supramodality) to estimate confidence in different senses such as audition, touch, or vision. The study is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Submitted on September 27th 2017 by 8mm
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Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm
A model of how wave forms of quantum systems collapse reveals a way they could create gravitational fields, and perhaps even reconcile two pillars of physics
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Submitted on September 26th 2017 by RusSwatKatsFan
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Move towards 'holy grail' of computing by creation of brain-like photonic microchips
Scientists have made a crucial step towards unlocking the "holy grail" of computing - microchips that mimic the way the human brain works to store and process information. A research team, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter, have made a pioneering breakthrough by developing photonic computer chips - that use light rather than electricity - that imitate the way the brain's synapses operate.
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Submitted on September 28th 2017 by jackthetripper
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9 +16y+ ago
The Man Who's Bringing Us Closer Than Ever to Interstellar Travel
Greg Matloff is one of humanity's best hopes for traveling to unknown worlds.
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Submitted on September 28th 2017 by drunkenninja
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10 +16y+ ago
Europe is Designing a New Particle Collider to Take On China
CERN, the European nuclear physics research organization, is contemplating the development of a particle accelerator three times larger than the Large Hadron Collider that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, a move intended to match growing Chinese ambitions in particle physics.
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Submitted on September 25th 2017 by geoleo
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Here are this week's top five Science & Space tribes:
/t/research 151 posts, 42 comments, 626 votes.
/t/science 112 posts, 33 comments, 484 votes.
/t/futurism 62 posts, 15 comments, 242 votes.
/t/space 30 posts, 4 comments, 128 votes.
/t/neuroscience 30 posts, 14 comments, 152 votes.
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