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March 22, 2026, 12:41 PM - 6 min read
A great deal of visual processing in the brain goes on well below our conscious awareness. People with blindsight report that they are unable to see, either entirely or in a portion of their visual field. However, when asked to guess what is there, they can often do so with remarkable accuracy.
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March 19, 2026, 02:03 PM - 6 min read
People living with hearing loss often rely on visual predictive cues to understand and follow conversation.
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March 5, 2026, 05:18 PM - 6 min read
The radio afterglow has been detected of a powerfulspace explosion that went unseen, possibly an orphan gamma-ray burst or a rareblackhole event 1.7 billion light-years away.
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December 24, 2025, 01:37 PM - 9 min read
The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the global average, with 2025 the hottest year on record for the region. Shorter snow seasons, shrinking sea ice and record ocean temperatures are intensifying floods, storms and wildfires.
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December 8, 2025, 09:23 PM - 7 min read
The debris will cause problems for all space launch agencies and private companies, as there is a limit to our ground-based tracking and warning abilities. This makes addressing the global governance of space critical.
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December 1, 2025, 06:23 PM - 6 min read
Previous attempts to understand Rano Raraku failed not because the quarry held impenetrable secrets but due to the lack of published documentation and the limitations of traditional mapping methods.
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November 13, 2025, 06:10 PM - 4 min read
Floated as a tender closing on November 20, this initiative promises to consign outdated jigs and paper blueprints to history in favour of laser-sharp digital guidance, slashing build times and errors on the factory floor.
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July 4, 2025, 02:52 PM - 6 min read
It's also the first time international crossbreeding of corals has been permitted for planting onto wild reefs.
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June 11, 2025, 03:05 PM - 7 min read
Scientists realised Einstein’s theory didn’t actually say the universe had to be static; the theory could support an expanding universe as well. Indeed, by using the same mathematical tools provided by Einstein’s theory, scientists created new models that showed the universe was, in fact, dynamic and evolving.
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March 2, 2025, 01:37 PM - 5 min read
The 'e-Taste' interface employs sensors and wireless chemical dispensers to enable remote taste perception, often known as gestation.
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February 26, 2025, 01:04 PM - 7 min read
According to the Snowball Earth hypothesis, Earth underwent at least two extreme global glaciations during the Cryogenian. Traces of these events can be seen across the globe in sedimentary rocks formed under glacial conditions, strongly suggesting that ice spread from the poles to reach the equatorial region.
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February 14, 2025, 03:01 PM - 7 min read
But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good.
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