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It was, to put it mildly, a bad day for Earth when an asteroid hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula 66 million…
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that computer models of hearing and vision can build their own idiosyncratic “invariants” — meaning they respond the same way to stimuli with very different features.
Human sensory systems are very good at recognizing objects we see or words we hear, even if the object is upside down or the word is spoken by a voice we’ve never heard.
The results, which have yet to be peer-reviewed, suggest that structural changes in the brain during menstruation may not be limited to those regions associated with the menstrual cycle.
After more than 350,000 systematic coin tosses and recording the results, the research showed that any coin will land on the same side it was tossed from “as much as” 50.8% of the time.
In this case, it’s interesting to see that there really is a specific technique for the base layer of the Mona Lisa
According to the simulation hypothesis, we may be living in an imaginary reality. Everything we experience is actually a model of something else.
Jupiter will have three times the computing capacity of the current strongest European supercomputer.
New research reveals something different and supports the view that humans were in the Americas around 23,000 years ago.
The food we eat plays a big role in how we feel. In the past decade, research has emerged linking diet to mental well-being, and certain foods are associated with increased serotonin in our brains.
A special type of jellyfish, more precisely a type of small jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora), which, although it does not have a brain, can accurately remember the past.
