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Information Entropy & Living In A Simulation

Physicist Melvin Vopson has proposed that we may be living in a simulation due to his theory of Information Entropy being observed in Covid mutations, which he proposes do not develop randomly and according to the theory of evolution, but mutate according to his information Entropy theory which states that information entropy always remains the same or lower.

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60ms Odour Detection

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Chinese scientists have demonstrated that the human nose can differentiate between distinct odours as fast as 60ms apart, which is a similar speed to that of colour perception.

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3D Printed Electronics

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MIT researchers have 3D printed electronic circuits without silicon, creating possibilities of more accessible development and maintenance of electronics technology.

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Lucid Dream Communication

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REMspace has successfully sent messages between two people while dreaming. Their system allowed a chat word to be injected into a lucid dream of a person, who responded with another word in their dream. Their response word was recorded bythe system and injected into a lucid dream of a second person, who confirmed the response word when they woke up!

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Tsunami Trapped In Fjord For 9 Days

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In September 2023, a 200m high tsunami sloshed inside a fjord every 92 seconds in Greenland for 9 days, caused by climate change melting ice at the base of a glacier which sent 25 million cubic meters of ice crashing into the water.

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Teenager Builds Nuclear Fusion School Project

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Cesare Mencarini, a 17 year old Italian student, developed a working nuclear fusion reactor for his Extended Project Qualification A-Levels project in Cardiff.

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Coin Toss Proved Not 50/50

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PhD candidate František Bartoš organised 47 volunteers to flip coins 350,757 times over 12 hours, to prove that coin tosses contain a 1% bias for the side visible before the coin is flipped.

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Plastic Eating Enzyme

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French company Carbios are on the verge of scaling the use of a PET plastic eating enzyme, first discovered by Sintawee Sulaiman in the University of Osaka, to recycle 50,000 tonnes of plastic a year.

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Harnessing Heat From Underground Car Parks

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Scientists in Germany and Switzerland measured the ambient air temperature of underground car parks, and the temperature of the groundwater beneath them, and found that those car parks generate a lot of waste heat, which heats the groundwater and impacts on biodiversity and water quality. Extrapolating their findings, the scientists estimate that all 5040 underground car parks in Berlin could heat 14,660 average German homes by harnessing the waste heat using heat pumps.

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