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Psilocybin creates hidden order inside the brain’s apparent chaos
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (1019+ words) Psilocybin changes how brain activity is organized, revealing patterns linked to a person’s surroundings and subjective experience. People describe a psychedelic trip as everything coming apart. For a decade, neuroscientists have described it the same way. A new study reports…...
A whole new world: the map resizing Earth
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (84+ words) A few days ago, the UN voted to adopt a new world map. Off the back of a campaign spearheaded by Togo, the new map more accurately displays Africa's size. For example, Greenland looks a similar size to the African…...
These microbes in Antarctica don’t live anywhere else
1+ week, 1+ day ago (534+ words) Notably, these are specific microbes, not all microbes in Antarctica. But it shows that some life in Antarctica can be different from the rest of the world. The researchers published the new peer-reviewed findings in Proceedings of the National Academy…...
The World Maps We Use Are Misleading About Continent Sizes
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1029+ words) Conventional world maps, such as the Mercator projection, are misleading regarding the actual size of continents. Discover why Africa often appears smaller than Greenland. AKTUALITA.CO – The world maps displayed in classrooms, textbooks, offices, and on various digital platforms may…...
New scientific review identifies Antarctic coastal blind spots limiting sea level projections
1+ week, 5+ day ago (498+ words) New review calls for better coastal observations to predict Antarctic ice loss image: A new, international, community-led scientific review warns that major gaps in knowledge along Antarctica’s coast are now one of the biggest obstacles to reliably predicting future global…...
Whale fossil discovered by 10-year-old boy in Northern Ireland
1+ week, 3+ day ago (650+ words) Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here? A big archaeological discovery has been made on the coast of Northern Ireland by a local boy having a walk on the beach. George was walking along Portmuck Harbour in Islandmagee with…...
Roads, Tunnels and Construction Are Chipping Away at Kashmir’s Mountains: Expert
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1671+ words) JAMMU: On August 16, a small group of University of Jammu students was heading toward Ladakh to study the ground and log coordinates. It was routine fieldwork on a stretch of road where no public memory of any disaster existed. That…...
Opinion | The mountains have changed. Nepal must too
1+ week, 3+ day ago (457+ words) The question for Nepal is therefore whether Nepal is developing the scientific knowledge, monitoring systems and institutional capacity needed to understand what is changing in the mountains before those changes become disasters. These cascading hazards are becoming increasingly important in…...
'A worrying snapshot': Satellite image shows large patches of open water less than 40 miles from the North Pole
1+ week, 3+ day ago (537+ words) An image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming, with large patches of open water visible near the North Pole on Aug. 29. Large patches of open water were visible just 37 miles (60 kilometers)…...
Seismic waves from Nepal???s landslide-flood reached Alaska, and so should the lessons
1+ week, 4+ day ago (203+ words) There is a lot about what happened in Nepal that we do not yet understand, and Alaska has been spared a geologic event with this level of human toll. While the heartbreaking stories continue to unfold, we have a responsibility…...