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.

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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.”

 

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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.