Choosing to forget something takes more mental effort than trying to remember it
Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, according to new research.
A new research suggests that in order to forget an unwanted experience,...
NASA warns that India’s anti-satellite missile test left 400 fragments of space debris
NASA said the test carried out by India in space, which consisted in testing an anti-satellite missile, leaving more than 400 pieces of orbital debris orbiting, has been a...
The majority of the world’s bird population originated in Australia
These birds—also known by their order name, passerines—comprise more than 6,000 species, including familiar birds like cardinals, warblers, jays, and sparrows. Passerines make up more than 60 percent of...
People can think like computers?
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Mars Helicopter ready to take off on Mars 2020 mission
The U.S. space agency presented a few moths ago the Mars Helicopter and it has now passed the main tests.
It is a vehicle quite different from what we usually...
A toddler’s language data fits on a floppy disk
Language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans are just hardwired to do, according to new research.
Researchers have calculated that, from...
Brain would continue to create neurons until we turned 90
The brain, the organ in charge of centralizing the activity of the nervous system, would continue to produce neurons until the age of 90, according to a scientific study...
What happens if the liquid deuterium is compressed at pressures of up to five...
Researchers have discovered a way to turn a liquid metal into a plasma and observe the temperature when a liquid under high-density conditions crosses over to a plasma state.
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Would you like to know what the ancient Greeks thought about robots and artificial...
Thousands of years before machine learning and self-driving cars became reality, the tales of giant bronze robot Talos, artificial woman Pandora, and their creator, the god Hephaestus, filled the...
Can not the humankind actually prevent asteroid collisions?
Incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, according to a study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method...
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What is Google Translatotron?
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Google Play may be still used on Huawei devices
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When price is the first factor in the purchasing decision, consumers make poor choices
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