Category: Research
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Observe. Choose. Religion. Science.
We’ve received a birth announcement from 20 million light years away, in the form of our first ever glimpse of what seems to be the birth of a black hole. When massive stars run out of fuel, they die in a huge explosion, shooting out high-speed jets of matter and radiation. What’s left behind collapses…
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Elite scientists can hold back science.
Max Planck — the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who pioneered quantum theory — once said the following about scientific progress: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Shorter:…
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…! (science saying nothing)
Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus shed light on one of the brain's most complex tasks - making sense of sound - during the recent Falling Walls conference in Berlin. "The sounds of our lives change our brain", said Kraus, an inventor, amateur musician and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Lab in the School of Communication.…
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Changes… Changes? [OR: Why science is a tautology?]
Brain of astronauts changes while living in space. (1) So deep... Like saying that something changes when its environment... changes! Wittgenstein said that mathematics were mere tautologies and conveyed no real message or knowledge. Perhaps we should start thinking the same about sciences... What is is. And you will never know anything more…
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Stupid research. The only good research...
The next CEO of Australia’s leading research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is in hot water after suggesting the cash-strapped organization spend scarce research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing. “I’ve seen people do this with close to 80% accuracy, and I’ve no idea how they do it,” Larry Marshall told…
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