The Scale of the Universe: bellissimo!

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Spettacolo!

Incredible, Rare Underwater Footage Shows Whales Using Bubble 'Nets' to Hunt

It's an absolutely fascinating and beautiful thing to watch - and scientists have caught it on camera in a rare whale's-eye view.

 

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Humans Will Never Live on Another Planet, Nobel Laureate Says. Here's Why. | Space

 

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Ma dai...

This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded Star

 

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Che spettacolo!

A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced

Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research.

New research shows that patterns of neural activity are as detailed, or high-dimensional, as they can possibly be without becoming fractal, or non-smooth.

 

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Che botta!

That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Instantly Acidified Our World's Oceans, Too

We know that the Chicxulub impactor was responsible for the extinction of the land-based dinosaurs when it slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago. But new research shows the asteroid severely acidified the oceans too, wiping out much of the life residing underwater.

 

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Bella!

What Google's 'quantum supremacy' means for the future of computing

For the first time ever, a quantum computer has performed a computational task that would be essentially impossible for a conventional computer to complete, according to a team from Google.

Scientists and engineers from the company's lab in Santa Barbara announced the milestone in a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature. They said their machine was able to finish its job in just 200 seconds—and that the world's most powerful supercomputers would need 10,000 years to accomplish the same task.

 

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Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than We Thought, Creating a 'Crisis in Cosmology'

The Universe is expanding much faster than scientists predicted, and nobody knows why.

 

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State calmi!!

Is a New Particle Changing the Fate of the Universe? | Live Science

Astronomers around the world are in a bit of a tizzy because they can't seem to agree about how fast the universe is expanding.

 

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Sempre in topic!!

The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say - VICE

'Spacetime foam' might just be the wildest thing in the known universe, and we're just starting to understand it.

 

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Evoluzione

Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

Neural networks that borrow strategies from biology are making profound leaps in their abilities. Is ignoring a goal the best way to make truly intelligent machines?

 

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Ma che e'?

For The First Time, Astronomers Witness Colossal Winds Blowing Out of a Distant Galaxy

 

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"L'Universo potrebbe essere curvo e non piatto" - Repubblica.it

La nuova ipotesi sulla geometria in uno studio dell'Università La Sapienza di Roma. I risultati ottenuti dall'analisi dei dati sulla radiazione cosmica di fondo del 2018 raccolti dal satellite Planck dell'Agenzia Spaziale Europea

In a flat universe, as seen on the left, a straight line will extend out to infinity. A closed universe, right, is curled up like the surface of a sphere. In it, a straight line will eventually return to its starting point.

 

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Aah... ecco perche'!

This Is Why Dark Energy Is The Biggest Unsolved Problem In The Universe

There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why.




The four possible fates of our Universe into the future; the last one appears to be the Universe we live in, dominated by dark energy. What’s in the Universe, along with the laws of physics, determines not only how the Universe evolves, but how old it is. If dark energy were about 100 times stronger in either the positive or negative direction, our Universe as we know it would have been impossible.

 

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Ah pero'... che sorpresa

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

The math that describes neutrino oscillations can be fiendishly difficult. A search for a shortcut led to a mathematical surprise.

 

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The infant Universe

This huge radio telescope is out to solve an epic astrophysics mystery | WIRED UK

Mobile phones are banned at MeerKAT – an array of 64 huge dishes in the South African desert trained on one of the universe's great mysteries

When SKA is fully operational – which is expected to happen by 2030 – it will be able to peer 14 billion years back to the moments after the Big Bang, and provide new insights about supernovas, black holes and the infant universe.

 

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Che fortuna!!

Scientists Capture Spectacularly Rare Footage of Deep-Sea Fish Devouring a Whole Shark

Feasts are rare on the barren landscape of the ocean depths. So researchers couldn't believe their luck when they stumbled on a feeding frenzy of deep-sea sharks chowing down on a fallen swordfish off the US coast earlier this year.

But they never imagined they would also capture footage of one of those sharks becoming the prey for another deep-sea creature.

 

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Bellissimo topic

 

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Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists Are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies - VICE

Independent "researchers" are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.

 

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Astonishing: e brave le api...

Astonishing Footage Shows Bees Have Learned to 'Surf' to Avoid Drowning

 

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EXCLUSIVE: This Is How the U.S. Military’s Massive Facial Recognition System Works

Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.That weapon is a vast database, packed with millions of images of faces, irises, fingerprints, and DNA data — a biometric dragnet of anyone who has come in contact with the U.S. military abroad. The 7.4 million identities in the database range from suspected terrorists in active military zones to allied soldiers training with U.S. forces.