Etiket: Science
MPs denounce science doubting Van der Plas: ‘It’s poison’ | NOW
The House of Representatives has criticized the way in which Caroline van der Plas (BBB) questions the integrity of scientists. It mainly concerns emeritus professor Leen Hordijk, who investigated the…
ISS space station has to make way for debris from destroyed Soviet satellite | Science
The International Space Station had to make way for scrap from a Soviet satellite destroyed by the Russians seven months ago on Thursday evening. This was reported by the head…
Mystery of origin of the Black Death solved, researchers say | Science
Researchers believe they have solved the nearly 700-year-old mystery of the origin of the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in history. An international team links a spike in deaths in…
Researchers map brain ‘addiction network’ in long-term smokers | Science
Researchers have managed to map an “addiction network” in the brain in long-term smokers who stopped smoking abruptly after brain injury. The authors of the study, published today in Nature…
Is Google an AI robot or a consciousness? ‘Voorlopig is he science fiction’
A Google-Medewerker is shorn after he claimed that the AI-robot LaMDA had a consciousness. Dat lijkt een filmscenario, but het suffers tot hoogoplopende discussions. Can AI be desired? En zijn…
US drug agency: “Pfizer vaccine also effective in children under 5 years old” | Science & Planet
The US drug agency FDA today confirmed that Pfizer’s corona vaccine also works well in children under the age of 5. That message comes in the run-up to a meeting…
Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster than ever before: in 5,500 years it has never happened as fast as it is now | Science
The heart of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not doing well. “The arteries are torn,” concludes researcher Dylan Rood. After all, he experienced that two monster glaciers are melting…
5 activities not to miss at ISEA Barcelona 2022, the Olympics of digital art, science and technology
The first drone show in the Barcelona sky, a ‘map‘ in the modernist enclosure of Saint Paul, 13′performances‘, exhibitions with more than 80 works, immersive installationsinteractive pieces, sound art, animations,…
SpaceX successfully launches Egyptian telecom satellite | Science
A Falcon-9 launcher took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 23:04 Belgian time. The first stage returned to Earth, landing a mere nine minutes after lift-off on the Just…
When do we breathe liquid while diving, as in science fiction film The Abyss?
A rosy liquid in The Abyss. What? Fluid that you inhale during deep diving sessions. Where seen? In science fiction epic The Abyss (1989) Bud Brigman (played by Ed Harris)…