Weekly Roundup | Science and Space: Top 20 science stories of the week of Oct 7 - 14th, 2016
Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars
One of my earliest memories is sitting on my grandfather's shoulders, waving a flag as our astronauts returned to Hawaii. This was years before we'd set foot on the moon. Decades before we'd land a rover on Mars. A generation before photos from the International Space Station would show up in our social media feeds.
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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by belangermira with 8 comments
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2 +17y+ ago
Sensory dynamics of visual hallucinations in the normal population
Hallucinations occur in both normal and clinical populations. Due to their unpredictability and complexity, the mechanisms underlying hallucinations remain largely untested. Here we show that visual hallucinations can be induced in the normal population by visual flicker, limited to an annulus that constricts content complexity to simple moving grey blobs, allowing objective mechanistic investigation. Hallucination strength peaked at ~11 Hz flicker and was dependent on cortical processing. critical to test theories of human consciousness and clinical models of hallucination.
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Submitted on October 12th 2016 by wildcat with 1 Related Links:
1. Did You See That? Inducing Visual Hallucinations in Healthy People Added by AdelleChattre on October 12th 2016.
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3 +17y+ ago
Silkworms Spin Super-Silk After Eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
The strong, conductive material could be used for wearable electronics and medical implants, researchers say
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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by TNY with 1 comments
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4 +17y+ ago
A Friend For Pluto: Astronomers Find New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
Scientists in Michigan have found a new dwarf planet in our solar system. It's about 330 miles across and some 8.5 billion miles from the sun. It takes 1,100 years to complete one orbit. But one of the most interesting things about the new object, known for the time being as 2014 QZ224, is the way astronomers found it.
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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by gladsdotter
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5 +17y+ ago
VA hospital’s LSD experiments sped brother’s fall into schizophrenia, Lee’s Summit man fears
Robert Rowland believed he received LSD while in Topeka’s Veteran’s Administration hospital more than 40 years ago. His death launched his brother Michael on a search back through America’s bizarre history of psychedelic drugs. By Joe Robertson.
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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by AdelleChattre
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6 +17y+ ago
How bad science misled chronic fatigue syndrome patients
A much-touted study recommended therapy and exercise for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Problem is, it was based on bad science.
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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by andromeda
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7 +17y+ ago
A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes. By James Gleick.
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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by AdelleChattre
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8 +17y+ ago
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.
On August 25, Jennifer Tackett, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, got an odd email in her inbox. It was from PubPeer, an online forum where people share and discuss scientific articles. A program called “Statcheck” was writing to inform her it had been double-checking the math in her paper. And it made her a little anxious.
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Submitted on October 11th 2016 by gladsdotter
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9 +17y+ ago
‘We’re growing brains outside of the body’
Madeleine Lancaster has 300 brains growing in her lab – here’s how she’s done it. By Zaria Gorvett.
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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments
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10 +17y+ ago
Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD
Investigative journalist Alan Schwarz sounds the alarm. By Gareth Cook.
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Submitted on October 12th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments
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11 +17y+ ago
The Green Bank Observatory Is Going Rogue to Stay Up and Running
Green Bank observatory has helped pave the path for other federal scientific facilities that the government will later leave behind.
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Submitted on October 10th 2016 by CatLady
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12 +17y+ ago
Physicists just created the world's first time crystal
Just last month , physicists made the best case yet for why time crystals - hypothetical structures that have movement without energy - could technically exist as physical objects.
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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by Pfennig88
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13 +17y+ ago
Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars
A Fourier transform analysis of 2.5 million spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was carried out to detect periodic spectral modulations. Signals having the same period were found in only 234 stars overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range. The signals cannot be caused by instrumental or data analysis effects because they are present in only a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range and because signal to noise ratio considerations predict that the signal should mostly be detected in the brightest objects, while this is not the case.
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Submitted on October 13th 2016 by timex
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14 +17y+ ago
China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes. By Robert Young.
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Submitted on October 14th 2016 by AdelleChattre
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15 +17y+ ago
Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy?
We can implant false memories with increasing ease – and it may well help you to live a healthier, happier life. But what are the ethics? By Robert Nash.
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Submitted on October 12th 2016 by AdelleChattre
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16 +17y+ ago
What is dyslexia?
For Dyslexia Awareness Week, three guest contributors explain how their experiences of dyslexia affect their relationship with language, and a representative of the British Dyslexia Association discusses what dyslexia is, how it affects people, and how we can make the printed word more accessible for dyslexic people.
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Submitted on October 8th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments
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17 +17y+ ago
‘Game-changing’ study suggests first Polynesians voyaged all the way from East Asia
Ancient genomes trace first settlement of the remote Pacific to Asian farmers. By Ann Gibbons.
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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by AdelleChattre
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18 +17y+ ago
Generation Adderall
Like many of her friends, Casey Schwartz spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start her career. Then she tried to get off them.
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Submitted on October 12th 2016 by gladsdotter
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19 +17y+ ago
Return to the Teenage Brain
We assumed neurological development was a one-way street. What if it isn’t?
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Submitted on October 9th 2016 by gladsdotter
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20 +17y+ ago
What the Folk? The Charming Yet Totally Malappropriate Story of Folk Etymology
Etymology is a funny thing. Even if you're not a word nerd, you might have wondered why so many English idioms we use are Just. So. Weird.
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Submitted on October 7th 2016 by gladsdotter
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/t/research 118 posts, 33 comments, 593 votes.
/t/science 120 posts, 49 comments, 619 votes.
/t/neuroscience 41 posts, 17 comments, 199 votes.
/t/space 35 posts, 23 comments, 150 votes.
/t/futurism 35 posts, 23 comments, 208 votes.
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