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Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (71) | comments 31 | with audio podcast feature




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Exploring Mars in the Austrian Alps

In the largest ice caves on Earth, spacesuits and remote-controlled planetary rovers were for the first time tested in a five-day odyssey in the Alps designed to mimic potential future missions on Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite camera is a powerful reminder of the rise and fall of a ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australians make Antarctic history

Two Australian adventurers have made Antarctic history by becoming the first team to travel unaided to the South Pole and back, surviving three months of "extreme hardship", they said on Friday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Woman to begin Antarctic crossing, awaits weather

(AP) -- A 33-year-old British adventurer preparing for a historic solo crossing of Antarctica was waiting at a base camp for the weather to improve on Sunday in order to begin her long journey on skis.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days

Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch

The 520 days of isolation for the Mars500 crew will end on 4 November, when the hatch of their ‘spacecraft’ is opened for the first time since June last year. Scientists eagerly await the final samples ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mental time-travel in birds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain types of birds may track army ant swarms using sophisticated memory and the ability to plan for the future.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

The fate of the big rain

Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, is investigating the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Room service with the tap of an iPad screen

For a night of clubbing in Manhattan on a recent weekend, Seunghee Thomson turned to the iPad in her room at the Mondrian SoHo to ask the hotel's concierge for a recommendation.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forgotten archive shines new light on turbulent 1930s

Previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally of 1937 have been uncovered by a Cambridge PhD student in the archive of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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