Click Here to Read: Google announces a new breakthrough for quantum computing By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on October 26, 2019.
Image: National Institute of Standards and Technology. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Did Our Universe’s Structure Grow From The Top-Down Or From The Bottom-Up?
Click Here to Read: Did Our Universe’s Structure Grow From The Top-Down Or From The Bottom-Up? by Ethan Siegel on the Forbes Magazine website on October 9, 2019.
The history of the expanding Universe can be traced back 13.8 billion years, to the very beginning of the hot Big Bang. A matter-filled Universe with initial imperfections underwent gravitational growth over a long period of time, resulting in the intricate cosmic web we see today. In the upper-left corner, a pie chart detais the fractional energy density of the Universe today.
ESA AND THE PLANCK COLLABORATION (MAIN), WITH MODIFICATIONS BY E. SIEGEL; NASA / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS USER 老陳 (INSET)
Click Here to Read: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for research in cellular responses to oxygen By Benjamin Mateus on the World Socialist Web Site on October 10, 2019.
1933 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Norman Angell on exhibit to the public at the Imperial War Museum, London, England Photograph: Anubis3 Medal: Gustav Vigeland. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Is this brain cell your ‘mind’s eye’?
Click Here to Read: Is this brain cell your ‘mind’s eye’? by Matthew Prior on the Frontiers Science News website on October 1, 2019.
A 20X image of cultured mouse cortical dendrites in cell culture. These structures are largely responsible for receiving incoming synaptic input, relaying that information to the soma (the neuronal cell body), and ultimately contributing to action potential generation in the axon hillock. Image: Dchordpdx
Seven Reasons Why Most Major Depression is Probably Not a Brain Disorder
Strange life forms found deep in a mine point to vast ‘underground Galapagos’
Click Here to Read: Strange life forms found deep in a mine point to vast ‘underground Galapagos’: The rock-eating, sulfur-breathing microbes have scientists wondering what other strange creatures dwell deep below Earth’s surface By Corey S. Powell on the MACH website on September 7, 2019.
Image: Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc.
What If Consciousness Comes First?
Click Here to Read: What If Consciousness Comes First? Bridging the mind-body gap will require a fundamental shift in perspective by Sharon Hewitt Rawlette Ph.D. on her Mysteries of Consciousness blog on the Psychology Today blogs on July 22, 2019.
Photo courtesy of Massachusetts General Hospital and Draper Labs. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
