What if there was a black hole in your pocket?
What would happen to you if a black hole the size of a coin suddenly appeared in your pocket? Lets find out!
What If the Large Hadron Collider Made a Black Hole?
Making a black hole in a particle accelerator sounds… a bit dangerous, to say the least, but scientists think that it could be possible! Here’s why it probably wouldn’t be dangerous — and might even teach us something.
El peso de los primeros años de vida puede afectar a la salud pulmonar en la niñez
Agencia SINC La trayectoria del índice de masa corporal (IMC, basado en el peso de la persona en relación a su altura) durante los primeros años de vida está relacionada con la función pulmonar en la niñez. Así concluye un estudio del Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), centro impulsado por la Fundación ”la […]
AI Expert Lex Fridman Weighs in on Simulation Theory
Taken from JRE #1422 w/Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/ZIcQwDkcaWk
Raymond Kurzweil – What is the Nature of Personal Identity?
Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don’t look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodies is different. We feel unity across time, but is this solidified sense of self an illusion? If not […]
Crean microbots capaces de caminar de forma autónoma
Agencia SINC La miniaturización de la electrónica para producir robots del tamaño de un cabello es un objetivo codiciado por la ciencia, pero limitado por la ausencia de sistemas que actúen a escala micrométrica. Ahora, según publica la revista Nature, científicos de la Universidad de Pensilvania, en Filadelfia (EE UU) han logrado dotar de movimiento a un equipo de […]
Leonard Susskind – Must the Universe Contain Consciousness?
Our universe seems fine-tuned for life, with the constants of physical laws having to be within tight boundaries. Does this mean that the #universe has a goal of #consciousness? Is there a directedness of the universe toward consciousness? Is consciousness entirely contingent or is it something special, even a ultimate object of universal development?
Es la música gran influencia motivadora para el rendimiento físico
MEC Gisela Aguilar Martínez En la mayoría de los casos de deportistas, tanto del ámbito profesional como del amateur, la música juega un papel muy importante en una sesión de entrenamiento motivadora. Por ejemplo, en la mayoría de los gimnasios y/o instalaciones en las que se imparten clases deportivas del tipo que sea reproducen música […]
Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When do we get to wormhole ourselves out of here?
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
What if every single black hole that formed in our universe sparked the big bang of a new universe? Cosmological natural selection proposes exactly this – but even better, it claims to be able to test the hypothesis.
China Just Launched Its Digital Yuan, Could This Be the End of Cash?
China has officially started rolling out its new digital currency, and it’s got us thinking a lot about cash. More specifically, is a cashless society the new reality?
El metal se usó en la Prehistoria para fabricar adornos antes que armas, según un estudio
Agencia SINC Hace unos 8.000 años, algunos grupos de Turquía y de Irán ya elaboraban cobre fundido, es decir, que en las primeras aldeas había descubierto que por medio del fuego es posible extraer metales de las rocas. La metalurgia se considera una victoria del ser humano sobre la materia, un avance que Mercedes Murillo, investigadora del departamento de […]
This Speech Will Change Your Life | Carl Sagan
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate […]
Here’s Why Scientists Are Still Arguing About How Much the Universe Weighs
How much does the universe weigh? As it turns out, this question does not have an easy answer.