How a simplistic keyboard-mashing game recruited thousands of players—for physics!
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The scene in a normally quiet neighborhood on Hawaii’s Big Island is like something out of an overwrought disaster movie: volcanic fissures have opened up, spraying smoke and hot lava in the air where just last week there was a road and people’s backyards.
On Friday morning, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim told reporters that two homes have been destroyed by the lava.
Eruptions began in the rift zone to the east of the Kilauea volcano Thursday, prompting evacuations of the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens subdivisions in Puna on the island’s southeastern corner.
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What do you get when you mix science fiction with music and some of the most powerful and important social issues to date? You get Janelle Monáe’s highly anticipated short film (or as Monáe astutely calls it ‘Emotion Picture’) Dirty Computer, which accompanied her new album by the same name.
A futuristic celebration of queer love, black and female power, and the nonconforming individual identity!
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Tour the ISS to catch up with the astronauts and hear their testimonials about what it feels like to watch Earth from space every day.
The National Geographic Channel has one major treat coming up for its viewers, reports Space.com.
Channel officials have disclosed the tantalizing news that they have made the first 3D Virtual Reality (VR) film ever shot in space.
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Contrary to certain sensationalist articles declaring that video games are harmful, there is, in fact, growing evidence that playing video games may have a positive effect on cognitive health, particularly in older people [1].
Today, we will be taking a look at the scientific evidence to see if brain training or hitting your favorite video game titles could help keep you healthy as you age.
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NASA released an infrared tour of Jupiter’s North Pole on Wednesday, April 11.
The 3D movie depicts the densely packed cyclones and anti-cyclones on the planet, according to NASA.
Data collected by Juno mission scientists using the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, helped generate the animation. JIRAM records the light from deep inside Jupiter, whether it is night or day.
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Get ready to lift your jaw off the floor.
It seems that the intricacies of technology are only speeding up, and every day we get closer to the sci-fi future predicted in so many novels and movies.
In a recent video from Google, we got a look into what that future might look like. Google introduced a new product called Project Soli, which uses radar technology to detect movements to such a detailed degree that you can use subtle finger movements to control it.
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