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Month: March 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGHfcRP-Vf8
An amazing team of engineers has worked to develop near real-time detection of how rock flows underground during “caving” mining operations using magnetic fields. This is very innovative. Perhaps this could have applications in plate tectonics in the future. Details are visualised toward the end of this video.
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Trophic Cascades aka Poonami
Turns out the brain is in constant dialogue with the immune system and even allows some foreign agents in – discoveries that are shedding new light on everything from epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease to autism.
via Neuroleaks: The secret dialogue between brain and body | New Scientist.
Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations — NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s — had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt.
India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, India’s space organization, ISRO, had a budget of $74 million, less than the movie “The Martian”
https://backchannel.com/isro-scientists-5ad220d6f38c#.svz8z2dlz
Computers could get 100,000 times faster if research led by the University of Michigan pans out. They use extremely short, configurable femtosecond pulses of light lasting 100 quadrillionth of a second.
via Ultrafast laser pulses shine way toward “lightwave electronics”.
Scientists are reporting 22 separate instances of humpback ‘super-groups’ that defy explanation – never-before-seen groups of 20 to 200 whales all appearing off the southwest coast of South Africa in recent years.
via Humpback Whales are Forming Mysterious ‘Super-Groups’, and No One Can Explain It – ScienceAlert.