Life after death? Man who 'died' details afterlife experience… and THIS is what he saw | Science | News

A user on Reddit by the name of ‘Bovinerifle’ revealed what he saw during his experience after he technically died for a few moments following an accident. 
Bovinerifle wrote the accident resulted in him “being transported to hospital in an ambulance in a critical condition”. 
He...

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Parkinson’s Disease Cell Therapy Relieves Symptoms in Monkeys

Magnetic resonance image and positron emission tomography of the brain of a monkey that received grafts (represented as white regions in T2 weighted images). Position emission tomography showed that the uptake of [18F]DOPA gradually increased after transplantation. Dotted lines outline the...

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Actor Nikola Kent Plays a Tough Guy on Ray Donovan

If you’re a Ray Donovan fan, surely you’ve seen Nikola Kent kick some ass. I beat him up with crazy interview questions but I had to narrow the interview down so you’ll never get to know how I asked him out, what he said, and why he will stay clear of me for the rest of...

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Weather CHAOS: Supervolcano eruptions could spark extreme temperature in UK | Science | News

Researchers analysing data of eruptions over hundreds of years found that many of the UK’s most extreme summers and devastating winters were not random events but triggered by volcanic blasts.
Scientists from Liverpool University also warned that supervolcanoes could be among the greatest...

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Global Patterns of Human Epigenetic Variation

ISTOCK, BESTDESIGNSDNA methylation—changes to the activity of a DNA segment without changing the sequence—may be a rich source of raw material for natural selection, say the authors of a new study that analyzed DNA methylation, genotype, and gene expression data from five diverse human...

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Machine Learning: The New Infrastructure for Everything

The first half of the information age was programming computers to do what we want. In the second half of the information age computers will program
themselves.
Over the last 30 years, coding capabilities grew at a phenomenal rate topped only by the amount of data being...

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Life after death: These people died and went to HELL following a near death experience | Science | News

Most people who go through an NDE come back talking about the tranquillity of the experience and how they have seen bright lights which they perceive to be a heavenly afterlife.
But these unlucky few believe that they, or people they know, have experienced the darkest side of all… they...

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Labs in Texas Batten Down the Hatches

NASAUpdate (August 25): Hurricane Harvey is now rated a Category 4 storm.

With Hurricane Harvey now upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane and set to make landfall late today (August 25) or early tomorrow, researchers in its path have prepared their facilities and are waiting to see if their...

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Internet and Society - Looking Toward the Future

By Vinton G. CerfPast President, ACMVice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
The Internet is seemingly everywhere, thanks to smartphones, high-speed radio and fiber networks, social network applications, and the Web. But, in fact, only about 3 billion people are thought to be...

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SHOCK CLAIM: Alien life could have existed in the Milky Way for more than 10 BILLION years | Science | News

Researchers have found planets orbiting sun-like stars throughout the galaxy which are almost as old as the universe.
Scientists from the University of Birmingham have found a star – Kepler-444 – with orbiting planets that are almost as old as the Milky Way and more than twice the age of the...

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Hunter-gatherer Microbiomes Cycle with the Seasons

Hadza men prepare to hunt.IMAGE COURTESY OF JEFF LEACHFewer than 200 Hadza people live as hunter-gatherers near the shore of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. In a study published today (August 24) in Science, a team led by Justin Sonnenburg of Stanford University has shown that their gut microbiota...

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Yes, There's Still a Need to Celebrate #WomenInSTEM

Ada Lovelace Day, which occurs on the second Tuesday of October every year, is an opportunity to celebrate women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Is there still such a need to talk about #womeninstem?
Let’s start with a little background on the person...

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Eclipse 2017: When is the next total solar eclipse in the UK? Time and date | Science | News

More than 12 million people sat in the path of totality of the August 21 solar eclipse, as it passed from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States.
The spectacular miracle of nature saw the moon cross paths with the sun, blocking out sunlight and darkening the skies for minutes...

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Vitamin C Depletion Accelerates Leukemia in Mice

WIKIMEDIA, RAMAAscorbate, also known as vitamin C, plays a key role in determining whether blood-forming stem cells will become cancerous, according to a study of cell cultures and mice published today (August 21) in Nature.

Both human and mouse hematopoietic stem cells are flush with...

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This Is How People Used the Internet 20 Years Ago

This article originally appeared on Inverse.

By Ben Guarino
On October 16, 1995, back before America Online became AOL, the Pew Research Center published a survey of Americans online. “Americans Going Online…Explosive Growth, Uncertain Destinations” has been preserved for...

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Arianna And LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Discuss Science And Spirituality At DLD Conference

At the annual Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich, HuffPost’s own Arianna Huffington and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman discussed the clash of science and spirituality, arguing that both are essential for success.
Video of the event can be viewed above.
Hoffman, a well-known...

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Solar eclipse 2017: When was the last total eclipse visible from the US? | Science | News

When was the last total solar eclipse in the US?
Tomorrow’s eclipse has been called a once-in-a-lifetime event, which is true for many.
The last time that a total eclipse crossed the entire contiguous US was in 1932.
There was an eclipse in 1979 that passed over Washington, Oregon, Idaho,...

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How Journals Treat Papers from Researchers Who Committed Misconduct

ISTOCK, BRIANAJACKSONIn June, Nature Plants published a manuscript by Patrice Dunoyer, a plant biologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France who was previously found guilty of scientific misconduct. The paper, which describes a strategy used by viruses to...

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Underrepresented Third Graders Learning to Code: Elementary Education 2.0

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a week speaking in Portland. In addition to great food trucks, I met some pretty amazing people. One of those amazing people is Yune. I met Yune after asking our mutual colleague, Jamie Johnson, if he could make some introductions to people...

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12 Essentialist Oversimplifications About Religion Badly in Need of Theory

The Raw Story published a post with the deliciously satisfying title, “These are the 12 worst ideas religion has unleashed on the world.” On the list are a lot of quite terrible ideas, including holy war, genital mutilation, and male ownership of female fertility. Other ideas...

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Eclipse 2017 map: Map shows ALL the eclipses across the world | Science | News

America is getting ready to witness a total solar eclipse that will move from coast to coast on Monday (August 21). 
The darkest path, where Americans will be able to see the total eclipse, will stretch all the way from Oregon, to South Carolina. 
The 70-mile path passes through Idaho,...

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Dengue Infection Impairs Immune Defense Against Zika

3-D representation of Zika virionWIKIMEDIA, MANUEL ALMAGRO RIVAS

Previous exposure to dengue virus could dampen a patient’s immune response to Zika, and potentially even aid infection, according to recent work carried out by US researchers. In a study published today (August 18) in...

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What Students And Teachers Really Think About Computer Science In Schools

Teachers who work at the poorest schools are more likely to think that computer science is vital to their students’ futures, but are less likely to think their school boards agree, a new survey released Tuesday reveals.


The survey was conducted by Gallup on behalf of Google, and looks at...

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New Religion and Science Study Reveal 'Post-Secular' Rejection Of Evolution

(RNS) Meet the “Post-Seculars” — the one in five Americans who no one seems to have noticed before in endless rounds of debates pitting science vs. religion.
They’re more strongly religious than most “Traditionals” (43 percent of Americans) and more scientifically knowledgeable than...

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REVEALED: US army’s plans to create a generation of SUPER SOLDIERS | Science | News

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is part of the US Department of Defense has revealed a plethora of plans to create an elite fighting force.
One of the projects on the horizon is to create software which could be uploaded directly to the brain to give their soldiers...

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Seeding the Gut Microbiome Prevents Sepsis in Infants

A clinician monitoring an infant who was part of the clinical trial.ASIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH ARCHIVESA simple synbiotic cocktail—the combination of Lactobacillus plantarum, a probiotic, plus the prebiotic fructooligosaccharide—can help prevent sometimes deadly cases of sepsis and...

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Tips for Parents Who Want to Help Their Child Learn More About Computer Science

As I waited for my first grader, Gabriel, to come out of his after school care classroom, I powered up LightBot, a mobile game designed to introduce programming principles to kids, for his younger brother Zeke to play. After a few taps to maneuver the robot to light up the final square, Zeke...

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Measles, Hobby Lobby and the Real Problem with Vaccinations

Let’s start this post with a little quiz:
What do the measles outbreak, Islamic fanatics in Pakistan, and the Supreme Court’s execrable Hobby Lobby decision all have in common? Answer: all three are examples of how society suffers when people’s religious beliefs are put...

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Sex robots made to look like DEAD WIVES will ‘help lonely men grieve’ | Science | News

Sex robots are now so lifelike that some bereaved husbands are ordering their own dolls designed to look like their dead wives.
The devices are now being hailed as the best thing to help lonely men grieve as they have become so customisable they can be designed to look identical to their...

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Pregnant Women Absent from Zika Vaccine Trials

ISTOCK, JOVANMANDICWhen it comes to Zika infection, pregnant women have the most to lose. If the virus is passed from mother to baby, the debilitating effects on fetal health are irrevocable or fatal. While there are no known treatments or countermeasures against an infection, there are a...

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Messages and Misconceptions of Computer Science Education

With Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code kicking off, I wanted to set the record straight on a number of ideas I’ve seen floating around by addressing common misconceptions and illuminating key messages in the computer science education movement. This is not an...

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Evolution Weekend: Celebrating Faith and Fact

Why do they do it? Why do hundreds of religious groups from all corners of the world opt to celebrate Evolution Weekend each year? Why do they spend time talking about science, supporting science, promoting science – all in the context of their faith?
While the specific answer is...

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Perseids meteor shower 2017: Date, time, when and where to watch | Science | News

The Perseids began on July 17 and will last until August 24 as Earth passes trough the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle.
But as many as 80 meteors an hour will dash through the sky duirng the peak tonight (Saturday August 12 into Sunday August 13). 
Last year this figure peaked at 150 to 200 an...

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Doctors’ Advice to Finish Antibiotics Overlooks Resistance

ISTOCK, SMARTBOY10In his 1945 Nobel Prize lecture, Alexander Fleming included the directive, “If you use penicillin, use enough.” Some 70 years later, clinicians and researchers still aren’t always clear on what that means. Surprisingly little is known about how treatment regimens...

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CEO of Code.org Talks About The Future Of Computer Science in Education

These Questions originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answers by Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org, on Quora.
What are the biggest social and political obstacles to getting more kids to study...

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William R. Catton, Jr. (1926-2015)

William R. Catton, Jr. — one of the most significant and influential ecological thinkers of the past century — died last month, just shy of his 89th birthday. Catton was an inspiration to a host of climate change, peak oil, and sustainability-oriented leaders, including many of...

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HURRICANE WARNING: Lack of El Niño to see nations blasted by huge storms | Science | News

Hurricane season could be the most active since 2010, according to research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center.
The team says the strong, warm current caused by the El Niño weather pattern usually prevents hurricanes from truly...

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First In Vivo Function Found for Animal Circular RNA

© CLIVEWA/SHUTTERSTOCK.COMCircular RNAs (circRNAs) have attracted growing attention in recent years, but their function in living organisms has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers report that one circRNA, Cdr1as, regulates microRNA levels in the mammalian brain, and that its removal...

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Closing the Tech Industry Gender Gap

I just returned from this year’s annual gathering of the World Economic Forum at Davos, where leaders from around the world gathered to discuss the implications of a new industrial revolution. This fourth industrial revolution (after the revolutions brought about by steam power,...

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70 Percent Of Evangelicals Believe Religion And Science Are Not In Conflict

WASHINGTON (RNS) The sociologist who busted myths last year with her study finding that the majority of scientists are religious, not God-denying atheists, is at it again.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, director of Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program, said 70 percent of...

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Chinese manufacturers claim to make bra out of graphene which 'can make your bust BIGGER' | Science | News

Chinese firm Jinan Shengquan Group says that it uses graphene – a supermaterial discovered by British boffins – to produce underwear.
Graphene, a revolutionary new substance first developed at the University of Manchester, is a form of carbon just one atom thick.
However, it is 100 times...

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A Potential Remedy for the Aging Brain

ISTOCK, DRA_SCHWARTZIndividuals who possess an innate resilience to age-related brain pathologies may offer molecular clues to unexplored therapeutics for neurodegenerative disease. After having accidentally discovered rapid aging and disease in mice with mutations in the gene that encodes...

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Obama Wants More Girls And Kids Of Color To Learn Computer Science

The United States has a problem with access to computer science programs in schools. In nine states, not a single African-American student took an AP computer science exam last year. Significantly fewer girls took the exam than boys.


A new initiative announced Saturday by the White House...

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Beyond Reason | HuffPost

Sometimes the universe surprises you.
A few months ago, I received an email from independent filmmaker Frank Huguenard. Having read some of my posts on the science of consciousness, Frank wanted to know if I’d consider being interviewed for a film on that subject. Cautious (and...

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Fears that deadly Yellowstone supervolcano about to BLOW after 1400 earthquakes hit | Science | News

Seismic activity around the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, US, is not uncommon, but the heaviest swarm in half a decade has people very concerned.
Since June 12, there has been over 1,400 tremors in the region, and experts state that the swarm could go on for another month.
The...

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Chemogenetics Doesn’t Work Like Many Thought

Transgenic mouse brain tissueMIKE MICHAELIDES, NIDAA popular chemogenetic technique for controlling cells does not operate in vivo in the way scientists had assumed. Reporting in Science yesterday (August 3), researchers show that CNO, a drug used in the DREADDs method (designer receptors...

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What's Next In Computer Science

These Questions originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answers by Pedro Domingos, Professor at the University of Washington and author of The Master Algorithm, on Quora.Q: What do you think of...

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Reflections on Scientific and Evangelical "Perceptions"

As the immensely influential early Christian thinker Augustine commented:

“Let every good and true Christian understand that wherever truth may be found it belongs to the Master.”

I wish I had said that. I also wish that any believer would nod in agreement. More precisely,...

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Jupiter can be turned into a STAR which would allow humans to conquer the solar system | Science | News

In the distant future, humanity may be able to ‘stellify’ Jupiter – to turn it into a star – with miniature black holes.
Astrophysicist Martyn Fogg first proposed the sensational idea and states that when technology and knowledge is sufficient, scientists could use black holes to seed the...

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Skin Graft-based Gene Therapy Treats Diabetes in Mice

An immunofluorescence image of one of the engineered skin graftsXIAOYANG WU ET AL.In a proof of concept study, researchers have used a gene-edited skin graft to treat diabetes in mice, they reported yesterday (August 3) in Cell Stem Cell.

The graft is grown from mouse stem cells...

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Girls Who Code Isn't Just An Organization -- We're Building A Movement

This summer Girls Who Code taught 1,560 girls computer science across the US. During the past seven weeks, girls from all over the nation got hands-on experience learning and writing code, went on field trips to local tech companies, heard from a variety of guest speakers in the field, and...

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Religious Schools Are Failing Us

It’s not a secret that the US education system is in need of change, as international measures of student performance place us behind countries like South Korea and Finland in math, reading, and science performance. But faith-based instruction is seldom singled out as part of the...

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Cosmic spider web which traverses unimaginably huge spaces throughout universe discovered | Science | News

Dark matter baffles even the brainiest boffins who still struggle to explain exactly what it is.
Dark matter was first conceptualised in 1977 by scientists who suggested that the substance, which is thought to make up 27 per cent of the universe, is responsible for all of the unseen matter...

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Details Published on CRISPR-treated Embryos

Human embryos two days after co-injection of CRISPR reagents and spermOHSULast week, word got out that a team of scientists had edited viable human embryos for the first time in the United States. Details of the feat were sketchy at the time, but the researchers have published their...

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24 Websites to Offer Coding at School

This piece was co-authored with Rachel Paulter, marketer at Chalk.com.
Computer science (CS) education faces a crisis. The White House calls computer science “an economic and social imperative for the next generation of American students.” Yet only 1 in 4 elementary and high...

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Why We Blame Strange Events On The Full Moon, Even Though We Know Better

Have you ever experienced something out of the ordinary and found yourself thinking, “It must be the full moon”? You probably need to read this.
For centuries, the moon has been a socially acceptable explanation for any number of odd events. Some hospital workers even believe...

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Nancy Ellen Abrams On A God That Scientists And Philosophers Can Believe In

WASHINGTON (RNS) When she was a teen, Nancy Ellen Abrams told her rabbi that humanity created God.
She’s still at it.
And according to her new book — “A God that Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science and the Future of Our Planet” — this God emerges from us, not the other way around.
Abrams...

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