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The coolest part about perpetual motion? The universe itself makes it impossible. ♾️
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Quantum physics says that you have never touched anything in your entire life.
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🚨Scientists May Have Found a New Kind of Star
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This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space. 📼: CSA/NASA
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🚨: Women who wore rose essential oil on their clothes for just 30 days showed significant increase in grey matter volume across the whole brain on MRI scans
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🚨 Time Behaves Completely Differently Inside This Quantum System Experiments with quantum systems are revealing that the way we describe time evolution can become surprisingly strange at microscopic scales.
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🚨: Here you see the first Quantum Entanglement image EVER captured worldwide.
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One knows physics very well, while others are good with balance!
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This video is a proof that humanity is still alive. 🙂
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DON’T FORGET TO LOOK UP; on August 12, 2026, there will be a total solar eclipse, along with a peak of the Perseid meteor shower and also a rare alignment of six planets will all occur on the same day.
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🚨:Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, scientists say
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🚨 The Longest Total Solar Eclipse of the Century Is Approaching. The total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027 will bring exceptionally long totality to parts of North Africa and the Middle East.
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I’m simply trying to do the greatest amount of good with the limited time I have on Earth.” — Elon Musk
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🚨 The 2026 El Niño Could Become the Strongest Ever Recorded, Scientists Warn.
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Physics.
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🚨: NASA has mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity data obtained from space.
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🚨 A man was shot in the head and cured of mental illness: A 19-year-old man who attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head inadvertently cured his own severe, debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder. In 1983, a teenager identified only as George was trapped in a relentless cycle of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), washing his hands hundreds of times a day and taking endless showers. Unable to cope with the debilitating illness, which had forced him to drop out of school and quit his job, George attempted to end his life by shooting himself in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. Remarkably, he survived. The bullet lodged in his brain's left frontal lobe, and while surgeons managed to remove most of it, some bullet fragments remained permanently embedded. What followed puzzled and amazed his medical team: within three weeks of the incident, George’s obsessive-compulsive behaviors had virtually disappeared. Over the next five years, he achieved an astonishing recovery, successfully reentering society, securing steady employment, and maintaining straight-A grades in college. His treating psychiatrist, Dr. Laszlo Solyom, explained that the bullet had precisely destroyed the localized brain tissue responsible for his OCD while sparing his overall intelligence and cognitive abilities. While doctors strongly warn that this was a highly dangerous, near-fatal fluke, the case remains a landmark in neuropsychiatry, demonstrating the profound and still-mysterious link between physical brain structures and mental health. source: The New York Times. Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness.
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🚨 DIABETES CURE… OR THE BEGINNING OF A MEDICAL REVOLUTION? For over a century, diabetes has meant daily injections, constant monitoring, and a lifetime of management. But now, scientists in China and researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in the United States have done something shocking, they used stem cells to create new insulin-producing cells and transplanted them into real patients. And here’s the twist… Some people with Type 1 diabetes started making their own insulin again. No pump. No syringe. Just living cells doing their job. It’s not a full cure yet. Trials are still small, and long-term results are unknown. But for the first time, medicine isn’t just managing diabetes, it’s trying to rebuild the pancreas itself. Science fiction? Not anymore..
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🚨 A CANCER-KILLING PATCH? SCIENTISTS SAY IT’S REAL Scientists have created a wearable patch that destroyed up to 97% of cancer cells in early melanoma tests. The tiny patch uses heat and special copper particles to attack tumors directly — without major surgery. Researchers believe this futuristic technology could one day make cancer treatment less painful, more targeted, and far less invasive. While still in early testing, the results are already turning heads around the world. The future of cancer treatment may not come from an operating room… but from a patch placed on the skin. Source:
American Chemical Society. A stretchy, heat-activated skin patch could be a surgery-free melanoma treatment. ACS Nano.
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Scientists have invented artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real brain cells. And that sentence alone should make you stop scrolling. Engineers printed tiny artificial neurons using inks laced with flakes of molybdenum disulfide and graphene on a flexible polymer substrate. When placed next to slices of a mouse brain in a lab dish, the real mouse neurons fired at the same pace as the artificial ones, suggesting the brain tissue could read the artificial signal as if it came from real cells. This is not science fiction. This is a published study in Nature Nanotechnology happening right now. The implications go in several directions at once. Better artificial neurons could lead to neuromorphic computers, a new type of computing that mimics the inner workings of the brain and could dramatically improve the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence. But perhaps more profoundly, some scientists have suggested that artificial neurons could one day replace damaged nerve cells or restore lost brain function in degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Think about what that means. A future where the neurons your brain loses to disease could be replaced by printed artificial ones that speak the same electrical language as your remaining cells. Current brain-computer interfaces rely on relatively crude pulses to communicate with neurons. The new artificial neurons can generate complex signaling patterns including series of spikes spaced out in time or sudden flurries of activity, far closer to how real neurons actually behave. We are still in early days. Researchers are clear that artificial neurons cannot yet maintain long term communication with biological tissue. But the fact that they can communicate at all is the breakthrough that changes everything that comes next. The brain has always been the final frontier of medicine. We just printed a key that might help us open it.
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