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Even in the depths of sleep, your brain is not completely shut off from those around you.The sound of snoring, the tugging of blankets, and the bumping of limbs are all registering on some level, and yet far from interrupting your sleep, new research suggests sharing a bed could actually make you feel like you've had a better night of rest.  At least, that is, when you're sleeping with a spouse or partner; if someone regularly sleeps with their child, they generally report greater insomnia than those who sleep alone.The…

San Franciscans have Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” a classic of cinematic heights and existential falls, to define their city by the Bay. Los Angeles explains its fundamental fatalism about corruption and power through Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.” But San Diego — a beautiful place full of people who have thought and fought for their country — has long had to settle for 1986’s “Top Gun,” a dumb, jingoistic and misogynistic Tom Cruise vehicle about Naval aviators, as its cinematic signature. The arrival of a “Top Gun”…

Let’s get one thing straight: although Amy Lennox sings and is Scottish, she is not related to Annie Lennox. She is, however, used to people making the assumption. She laughs, remembering a breakfast radio appearance from 2016 on which the host kept referring to Annie, thinking it was her mum.“I was half-asleep,” she says. “Then the penny dropped and – on live radio – I said: ‘Oh my God! You think my mum’s Annie Lennox.’ And the producers behind the glass went – she throws a hand up over her mouth and opens her eyes wide.…

We all have different preferences for when it's the right time to bring out the winter blankets. And the thermostat's setting often forms the basis of office arguments between women and men regarding the "correct" temperature for it to be set.  Between the sexes, there are always more similarities than differences. But research does consistently show women prefer a higher indoor temperature to men.But is there any science backing up the widespread belief women "feel the cold" more than men?Biological differences between…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A large international study found that on average 31.4% of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries. The result revealed inequality in securing a safe educational environment for students across countries. …

Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie Sharing A Passionate Kiss In The Tourist Makes Us Feel How These Two Didn’t Become A Thing Already – Watch ( Photo Credit – Twitter; IMDb ) Johnny Depp has recently won the defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard and is making headlines every now and then. Back in the day, he did a film titled ‘The Tourist’ opposite Angelina Jolie where fans loved their on-screen chemistry. They had a lot of kissing scenes in the film and we wonder how these two didn’t become a…

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron (previously Deep Science), aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in, but not limited to, artificial intelligence — and explain why they matter. This week in AI, a team of engineers at the University of Glasgow developed “artificial skin” that can learn to experience and react to…

As big brands talk about greening their supply chains, they also fail to protect workers from the effects of climate change, such as extreme heat and loss of work due to flooding. When flooding destroyed her family’s rice crops, Nimol* left her home in Battabang province in northwestern Cambodia for a job in a garment…

Image by Getty Images/FuturismF-F-FallingIf staring at this image down below (here's a big version) makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people are likely to experience the same sensation.Optical illusions are nothing new, but most of them trick us into thinking that a static image itself is transforming in some way when it isn't. What sets this fascinating piece of brain chaos…

A team of researchers led by an Indian-origin engineer in the UK has created an electronic skin capable of feeling "pain" and according to them it could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity. Professor Ravinder Dahiya, from the University of Glasgow's James Watt School of Engineering, said the discovery marks a real step forward in work towards creating large-scale neuromorphic printed e-skin capable of responding appropriately to stimuli.His team at the university developed the…