The 2001 monolith is a science-fiction icon. It can represent technology, God, alien influence or intense monkey violence, depending on what exactly you got out of Kubrick’s masterpiece. But will we ever see one? Rather than go to all the…
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“Our goal at Twitter is to be a force for good,” 38-year-old Twitter co-founder Evan Williams told the BBC’s Carrie Grace. “We have a fundamental belief, having worked on this type of thing for 10 years, that the open exchange…
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It’s no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in…
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The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is “the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it…
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This image shows a composite of the N 70 nebula - a “Super Bubble” in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy to the Milky Way system, located in the southern sky at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. N…
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“Dark Flow” sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It’s not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very…
Original post by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
“Dark Flow” sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It’s not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very…
Original post by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
Our eyes that scan the farthest reaches of the universe had their origin in the simple hydra, a members ancient group of sea creatures that along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria that first emerged 600 million years ago…
Original post by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
Patients in Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic campus have become the world’s first cyborg spellers, conjuring computerized letters using nothing but the power of the mind using the power of the electrodes surgically implanted through their skull onto the very surface of…
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We’ve recently seen the largest explosion ever recorded: a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production. The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed…
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