According to some scientists, there is no such thing as empty space. What we have instead is called “quantum foam.” We can’t see it, but we just might be able to sense it.
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New Book Suggests Return from the Dead
Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care doctor and the director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has written a new book discussing ways in which people can be resuscitated after they previously would have been considered clinically dead.
Parnia’s book, “Erasing Death: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death,” was recently featured on the Today show.
Spain Scientists Attempt to Debunk “Parallel Realities”
This infinite repetition idea can be found in early philosophy, ancient mythology, and today’s sci-fi literature. But can it be derived from physical theories about the universe, and does it have a place in science?
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dont-infinite-scientists.html#jCp
HAL 9000 Replica
70′s Illustrations of Futuristic Space Colonies
If you’re of a bookish bent and also of a certain age that starts with a “3,” you may well have gone through a phase in your childhood when you devoured every book in the local library on space/space travel/”the future” in general. If so, you may also emit a squeal of delight at these wonderful ’70s-era illustrations of space colonies, which we spotted at Visual News. VIA: -FLAVOR WIRE-
19th Century Diagrams Visualizing Human Consciousness
Could you represent the stages of human consciousness with a diagram? In the late 19th century, New Zealand psychologist Benjamin Betts tried to apply mathematics to the problem of visualizing human consciousness. What he produced were striking, almost floral designs that he believed represented the shape of out consciousness for a given activity.
Superman’s Home Planet of Krypton Located
Now, Superman knows where exactly he came from.
A noted astrophysicist claimed to have determined actual location of Superman’s fictional home planet — Krypton.
How to Make a 9 Layer Density Column
Are We Alone?
From David McCandless’s Information Is Beautiful Studio comes a magnificent charticle about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Above is just the top portion. See the whole thing at BBC Future, “Are We Alone?” (via Wired)
The Universe in a Glass of Wine
Cool Android Toys Made from Misc. Junk
Andrea Petrachi (aka Himatic) creates android-like sculptural figures out of miscellaneous found objects like toys and cameras.
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Infinity is Bigger than You Think
Fictional Atomic Bomb Photo Series
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The Robot Burlesque Revolution Has Begun
Meet the ladies from the Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku, Japan- massive fem-bots with mechanical lower halves that perform cabaret acts as patrons enjoy the strangest meal of their lives.
Oh Japan, you have truly mastered the art of awkward robotic entertainment!
–via TOPLESS ROBOT & NEATORAMA
Stunning New Images of Saturn
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A Hole In Mars
What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars’ Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The hole appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated on the image right. Analysis of this and follow-up images revealed the opening to be about 35 meters across, while the interior shadow angle indicates that the underlying cavern is roughly 20 meters deep. Why there is a circular crater surrounding this hole remains a topic of speculation, as is the full extent of the underlying cavern. Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life. These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers. -LINK-
Technicolor Ferrofluids are a Magnetic Acid Trip
Oil, watercolors and nanoscale iron particles make for some of the most psychedelic imagery this side of an LSD trip — and we’ve got the hi-res macro photographs to prove it.
Dream Recording Device ‘Possible’ Researcher Claims
Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they have developed a system capable of recording higher-level brain activity.
“We would like to read people’s dreams,” says the lead scientist Dr Moran Cerf.
New 350 Foot Crop Circle
It appeared overnight, a mysterious snake-like crop circle weaving across a wheat field in Wiltshire.
The 350ft-long installation is marked out of a field near the 200-year-old Alton Barnes White Horse chalk figure.
Dubbed a Venus ‘sunfish‘, the circle is thought to capture the ‘transit of Venus‘, an astronomical phenomenon which began last week and will continue until the beginning of July.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165517/Crop-circles-capture-transit-Venus-phenomenon-planet-passes-Earth-Sun.html#ixzz1z7rrbnzL
What Does It Mean for a Civilization to be a Million Years Old?
We thought it would be interesting to revisit Carl Sagan’s great question: “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old … an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque.”
All 786 Confirmed Planets in One Handy Chart
Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself—with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart—at least three levels deep.
Synesthesia May Explain Healers Claims of Seeing People’s ‘Aura’
Researchers in Spain have found that at least some of the individuals claiming to see the so-called aura of people actually have the neuropsychological phenomenon known as “synesthesia” (specifically, “emotional synesthesia”). This might be a scientific explanation of their alleged ability.
