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ift.tt/3cXmQCf The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions via ift.tt/2VJCY4x ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/35cjnNC We’re all so ready for this to be over. With the curve finally flattening in the US, the ramping up of anti-viral and vaccine trials against SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes Covid-19—and the launch of antibody tests to screen for…

ift.tt/3eYJFHJ The discrepancy between how fast the universe seems to be expanding and how fast we expect it to expand is one of cosmology’s most stubbornly persistent anomalies. Cosmologists base their expectation of the expansion rate — a rate known…

ift.tt/3bKY34m Oil tankers — 27 of them — have been spotted lurking off the coast of southern California. The footage was taken by the U.S. Coast Guard, as the Coast Guard is monitoring the "increased presence" of oil tankers that…

ift.tt/2VU7IP2 “Anyone who hasn’t been in the Chilean forest doesn’t know this planet. I have come out of that landscape, that mud, that silence, to roam, to go singing through the world.” “Today, for some, a universe will vanish,” Jane…

ift.tt/2SowRRl "Sweden’s suffering very, very badly" according to President Donald Trump. Nope, says Denmark’s former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who suggested April 7 that Denmark should have followed the cautious Swedish way of responding to COVID-19. Views diverge on…

ift.tt/2VBfIFW Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images I began to lose it this week. I know, I have it very easy. I’m not required to put myself at risk every day as a hospital or essential worker. I’m still employed. I’ve got…

ift.tt/2S8luwJ When the housing bubble burst during the Great Recession of 2008, big houses lost ground to smaller, more affordable units. But by 2014, big was back. Minnesota is part of this trend toward larger homes, with current home sizes…

ift.tt/2xYP5ld Triangle ABC has an inscribed circle I that is tangent to side BC at D. If BD = 26, DC = 25, and the inscribed circle’s radius is 15, what is the area of triangle ABC? Watch the video…

ift.tt/2VDrjUV Throughout the coronavirus quarantine, bread baking and sourdough cultivating have emerged as popular pastimes, keeping people busy with baking projects they’ve never tried before. My sweet tooth, however, leads me in a different direction entirely — I’m much more…

ift.tt/2Y1dtNN Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Most plagues have had scapegoats. There seems to be something deep, deep, deep in human nature that responds to existential threats like this one by seeking to blame someone else, or some other group, or…

ift.tt/34ZCn1y While many people in quarantine are missing their favorite restaurant meals, IKEA fans may be dreaming about the day they can finally have Swedish meatballs again. The furniture chain’s brick-and-mortar locations may be closed for now, but with the…

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[BETTY and SUE — a new breed of pragmatic, post-Bernie Biden supporters — sit at a Biden 2020 campaign booth on a sidewalk. They talk to each other while urging passersby to vote Biden.] BETTY: Ugh, I hate him. SUE:…

ift.tt/3aslYE8 An ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far-side of the Moon has tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes. Above – Notional view of LCRT on the far-side of the Moon. Credits: Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay Concept of operations for…

Physician Assistant, Medical ICU Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA – – – This is the fourth installment of our new series, Flattened By the Curve, which features the voices of doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and others on…

ift.tt/2XT7H0r Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 April 21 Eye on the Milky Way…

ift.tt/34UljtQ An aerial view of crabeater seals in Antarctica, mating damselflies and a twilight rocket launch were among the most lauded entries to the inaugural Nature TTL Photographer of the Year award via ift.tt/3eyGCpr ift.tt/2JJBK25

ift.tt/3cBJTSY Black holes, by definition, are so dense that not even light can escape. But ask any astrophysicist, and they’ll report that black holes are among some of the brightest objects in the universe. What’s going on here? The answer,…