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OSIRIS-REx collected a half-pound sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The mission’s sample return capsule landed with the aid of a parachute – like the training model shown here in an August 30 test – on September 24 at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range in the desert outside Salt Lake City. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber NASA’s OSIRIS-REx successfully returned samples from Bennu, despite a minor parachute deployment issue caused by wiring label discrepancies. The main parachute…

New suggests that Ice Age cave art was partly influenced by pareidolia, a phenomenon where humans see meaningful shapes in random patterns. Focusing on caves in Northern Spain, the study found that many images incorporated natural features of the cave walls, indicating that artists were influenced by both pareidolia and their creativity. The research also explored the role of lighting conditions and advances our understanding of the experiences and influences of Upper Palaeolithic artists. (Artist’s concept)Recent…

Artist impression of NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit at Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonResearchers used <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency…

Was Thanos The Most Scared Of Tony Stark? The Mad Titan Had A Valid Reason To Use The Power Of Infinity Stones To Kill Iron Man(Photo Credit –Still From Movie) Marvel Comic Studio always has several plot twists and alternate realities prepared for their upcoming movies many years in advance. This urges the fans to predict new possibilities and find deeper meanings in existing films’ storylines. One such fan theory that surfaced in recent years is related to Thanos, played by Josh Brolin, and his ‘greatest threat,’…

An AI tool that decodes what mice see could enhance future brain-computer interfaces, according to a new study. Named CEBRA, the system was developed by researchers at EPFL, a university in Switzerland. Their aim? To uncover hidden relationships between the brain and behaviour. To test CEBRA (pronounced “zebra”), the team tried to decode what a mouse sees when it watches a video. “Given the brain is the most complex structure in our universe, it’s the ultimate…

Scientists said Monday they have found a way to use brain scans and artificial intelligence modeling to transcribe "the gist" of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step towards mind reading.While the main goal of the language decoder is to help people who have lost the ability to communicate, the US scientists acknowledged that the technology raised questions about "mental privacy".Aiming to assuage such fears, they ran tests showing that their decoder could not be used on anyone who had not allowed it…

Marvel Trivia #13: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 Will Kill Off Rocket Raccoon Or Drax The Destroyer? ( Photo Credit – Movie Still; Poster ) Marvel studios put together a team of one of the most obscure superheroes Guardians of the Galaxy. Hardcore Marvel fans would know that this strange team of interstellar travelers ahead of time. With two motion pictures and appearances in two Avengers films, they are now part of the Marvel A-list. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is all set to release in 2023 and fans are eagerly…

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Mimi Winsberg is a Stanford-trained psychiatrist, and the co-founder and chief medical officer of Brightside, a national telemental health company. She previously served as the onsite psychiatrist at Facebook. She specializes in the field of digital health, devising algorithms to recognize mental illness though data.Below, Winsberg shares five key insights from her new book, Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don’t Have To. Listen to the audio version—read by Winsberg herself—in the…

Kaspersky has decoded a flaw in the encryption of Yanluowang ransomware that can help victims recover affected files without the attackers' key. The vulnerability in the malware has led the way for Kaspersky to analyse and detect the issue while providing a customer-friendly solution with a free decryption tool. Yanluowang malware, first detected in October 2021, has targeted large companies since August last year, including victims from US, Brazil, Turkey, and small organisations based in Sweden and China.In a post…