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Cultivated meat: Out of the lab, into the frying pan
20th June, 2021Making cultivated meat a $25 billion global industry by 2030 presents opportunities within and beyond today’s food industry.
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Exploring the Brain Activity Related to Missing Penalty Kicks: An fNIRS Study
25th May, 2021At vital moments in professional soccer matches, penalties were often missed. Psychological factors, such as anxiety and pressure, are among the critical causes of the mistakes, commonly known as choking under pressure. Nevertheless, the factors have not been fully explored. In this study, we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate the influence of the brain on this process.
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Why professional soccer players choke during penalty kicks
25th May, 2021A new study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain activity as inexperienced and experienced soccer players took penalty kicks.
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Behold the 1940s Typewriter That Could Type in English, Chinese & Japanese
25th May, 2021Watch More Than a Thousand Different Characters in Action
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How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day – the Hard Way, One Page at a Time
24th February, 2021Does turning the pages of an old book excite you? How about 3 million pages? That’s how many pages Eliza Zhang has scanned over her ten years with the Internet Archive, using Scribe, a specialized scanning machine invented by Archive engineers over 15 years ago.
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Applying insights from magic to improve deception in research: The Swiss cheese model
11th December, 2020Social psychologists, placebo scientists, and consumer researchers often require deception in their studies, yet they receive little training on how to deceive effectively. The field of magic offers a potential solution; magicians have deceived audiences for millennia using a variety of robust techniques.
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The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague
11th August, 2020In the 17th and 18th centuries,with the bubonic plague sweeping Europe, plague doctors wandered towns and countryside in a “fanciful-looking costume [that] typically consisted of a head-to-toe leather or wax-canvas garment,” writes the Public Domain Review, “large crystal glasses; and a long snout or bird beak, containing aromatic spices (such as camphor, mint, cloves, and myrrh), dried flowers (such as roses or carnations), or a vinegar sponge.”
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Inside Baikonur, Kazakhstan’s Gateway To Space
27th May, 2020As liftoff nears for the first astronauts launched from U.S. soil since 2011, we take a look at the Soviet-built cosmodrome that sent more than a dozen NASA astronauts into orbit.
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Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities
08th April, 2020Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s description of music as a universal language has become a well-worn cliché, usually uttered in a sentimental and not particularly serious way. In the sciences, the “universal language” hypothesis in music has been taken far more seriously.
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Isaac Newton Conceived of His Most Groundbreaking Ideas During the Great Plague of 1665
08th April, 2020Health experts worldwide say home is the best place to be right now to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Many lifesaving discoveries have been made in the wake of epidemics, such as Shakespeare, who wrote some of his best works during outbreaks of plague in London. But the best role model of productivity in a time of quarantine, is perhaps Isaac Newton. During the years 1665-67, the time of the Great Plague of London, Newton’s “genius was unleashed,” writes biographer Philip Steele. “The precious material that resulted was a new understanding of the world.”
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