NASA-Sponsored Studies Explain How Climate Change is Changing Earth – NASA

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Visualization of Earth

Researchers used more than 120 years of data to determine how melting glaciers, shrinking groundwater and rising seas are changing the planet’s orbit and lengthening days. Earth Days is getting a little longer, and that change is increasing. The reason is related to the same processes that caused the planet’s crust to move about 10 … Read more

‘We can’t answer these questions’: Psychologist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will acquire knowledge

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Computer image of brain organoids in a petri dish against a blue background. Organoids appear as small white blooms.

Brain organoids are 3D, lab-grown models designed to mimic the human brain. Scientists often grow them from stem cells, combining them to form a brain-like structure. In the last decade, they have become more sophisticated and are now able to reproduce many types of brain cellswhich can talk to someone. This has led some scientists … Read more