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Using terabytes of neural data, neuroscientists are understanding how fundamental brain states like emotion, motivation, or various drives to fulfill biological needs are triggered and sustained by small networks of neurons that code for those brain states https://t.co/74gxhw2Awd
Some 2,000 kilometers beneath our feet, there are enormous masses of hot mantle material the length of continents and stretching 100 times higher than Mount Everest. And, We literally don’t know what they are, where they came from, or what they do https://t.co/DsO1tRnjTh
A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor https://t.co/L8iryh8cR7
How astronomers discovered the fastest-growing black hole ever found, with an estimated mass of 20 billion Suns, devouring another Sun's worth of mass every 2 days. If it was at the center of our galaxy, it would appear 10 times brighter than a Full Moon https://t.co/1qqElvkhIK
At first glance this photos by Andre Ermolaev looks like a twisting abstract painting, but in reality it's an aerial photo of rivers flowing through Iceland’s endless beds of volcanic ash [more pictures: https://t.co/Yylzwxp0iU]
There’s an entire mountain range in Antarctica, similar to the size of the Alps, that no one has ever seen because it’s completely covered by ice [more: https://t.co/hPwQP0Bohn]
Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same way and this is an extreme example of convergent evolution https://t.co/dK4loETTMG
An animation of one year in the life of Earth's CO₂ [source, map: https://t.co/nc8JcoO8U8]
A northeastern Siberian town is likely to have set a record for the highest temperature documented in the Arctic Circle, with a reading of +38°C recorded Saturday in Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle and about 3,000 miles east of Moscow https://t.co/2SDt9ExFKr
The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour https://t.co/zIZ5sMvBZq