Scientists used a telescope to direct photons to satellites and then measure the photons’ quantum properties on their return. The green laser visible in the image is used to track the location of the satellite. The scheme shows that quantum [read more...]
The National Library of Medicine keeps an outstanding historical record of historic studies in the human anatomy. Here is a publication from the year 1747 by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus entitled "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani." An English translation of [read more...]
Intelligent dust particles embedded in the brain could form an entirely new form of brain-machine interface. The brain is whispering constantly, and only now do we have the tools to eavesdrop at scale. Neural dust—microscopic, ultrasound-powered sensors—promises a revolution, letting [read more...]
The further you go back in that history, the more likely those stories of exotic animals were less accurate. Here is a gorgeous collection of illustrations showing how people imagined real animals they had only heard about. Crocodiles from Liber [read more...]
What happens in a brain that doesn’t respond to others’ pain? Neuroscientists at the University of Groningen explore empathy by scanning the minds of extreme psychopathy, including Patient 13, whose maximum scores on the PCL-R make him a rare window [read more...]
Newspapers included in a time capsule buried of the Bahr Treatment Center of the state hospital. It was recovered this summer. Fifty-seven years after it was buried, a time capsule was discovered on the grounds of the old Indiana state [read more...]
Diophantus isn’t a household name, but his fingerprints sit quietly all over modern algebra. Only fragments of his work survived, yet they read like messages from an ancient mind trying to invent the very language numbers now speak. A Mathematician [read more...]
Michelangelo’s art is more than divine inspiration—it’s a playground for the mind. Recent analysis suggests he concealed the human brain in the depiction of God, in the Sistine Chapel - a merging of anatomy with spirituality, genius, and a dash [read more...]
From PBS Digital Studios: What exactly is spacetime? Well, it's a mathematical model that combines measurements of both space and time into a single continuum, with space consisting of three dimensions, and time consisting of one dimension - known as the [read more...]
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