Source: nature.com  Temporal cloak erases data from history

Technique that hides rapid data streams could provide ultra-secure communications.

• Zeeya Merali

05 June 2013 ( Read more... )

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Yes, you've probably heard this already, and social media circles were all a-Twitter yesterday...but it's fascinating news.Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space in 1992, will lead a space research foundation devoted to supporting research in human interstellar travel. Ms. Jemison's proposal was ( Read more... )

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From the article by Karl Tate: "Astronomers have discovered more than 700 alien planets beyond the solar system, and the count is rising all the time. Some are large and hot, and others are smaller and cooler, ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting article by Maia Szalavitz, published on the Time website. "An orgasm has now been imaged in 3D video in the brain as it happens."


"...and then the brain goes quiet."

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"Experiments have shown that the lag between things happening and us experiencing them is about 80 milliseconds."

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Tonight I happened to be in a place where I could see the International Space Station from Earth without the aid of a telescope.  It was visible at around 9:05 p.m. Pacific Standard Time ( Read more... )