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Scientists have developed a new conceptual and mathematical framework to understand consciousness from a relativistic point of view.According to the theory, all that’s needed to solve the hard problem of consciousness is to change our assumptions about it. When we realize that consciousness is a physical, relativistic phenomenon, the mystery of consciousness naturally dissolves.How do 3 pounds of brain tissue create thoughts, feelings, mental images, and a detailed inner world?The ability of the brain to create…

More than 90% of Marion County's 977,000 residents live in Indianapolis. The average U.S. metro rate includes many counties that encompass relatively small cities. The homicide rate in Marion County is comparable with levels seen in many cities with more than 500,000 residents. Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Get the data Indianapolis is no stranger to gun violence.…

The Indian Railways has received 297 proposals from various businesses under the ‘StartUps for Railways’ initiative, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a tweet on Friday. The initiative was launched by the government in June to provide seed funds of up to Rs 1.5 crore to innovative technological solutions. The fund will be granted directly to the Indian Railway Innovation Policy start-ups. It is expected that through the participation of a huge and untapped start-up ecosystem, this initiative will bring scale…

Over the past four days, fans of Nier: Automata and bystanders alike have been collectively obsessing over a newly discovered secret. This was all due to a door found in the popular action roleplaying game. It was no ordinary door that players simply missed on their multiple playthroughs needed to beat Nier; it was one that apparently only one person in the history of the game could manage to open. After a week of speculation, we know know why: it was fake. Someone randomly posted a video on the Nier Automata…

On January 30, 1864, the Confederate warship CSS Alabama entered what its captain described as a “remarkable patch of the sea.” The Alabama, sailing southwest along the Horn of Africa, was one of several Confederate vessels cruising the world's oceans during the U.S. Civil War, weakening the Union by raiding its merchant ships. Formidable pirates though they were, Captain Raphael Semmes and his crew were spooked by the sea they encountered that January evening. “At about eight P.M., there being no moon, but the sky being…

As the first dinosaurs were finding their feet around 230 million years ago, the ancestors of modern mammals were also emerging. Somewhere along the way they developed a remarkable ability: to generate their own warmth.   This decisive evolutionary step towards endothermy – the ability to generate heat from within and keep a near-constant core body temperature even when the ambient temperatures fluctuate – has since enabled this diverse class of animal to thrive in a multitude of environments the world over. But exactly…

Image via Marvel Warning: This article has massive spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder. Thor: Love and Thunder left fans with several questions. One of them was, “Why did Jane Foster enter Valhalla when she died if she didn’t die in battle?” And while fans had multiple theories and justifications, someone on Reddit managed to find the most plausible answer. Over on the r/MarvelStudios subreddit, Reddit user u/Stonecutter_12-83 asked the same questions that most fans asked after watching the recent Marvel film.…

Rumors started flying once again as this weekend saw Johnny Depp spotted with a mysterious red headed woman. Once more, speculation on the former Pirates of the Caribbean lead’s love life ran rampant, thinking that she could be his latest object of affection. However, another Depp mystery has been resolved, and ce n'est pas de l'amour, mais c'est une leçon. Or, in English, “it’s not love, it’s a lesson.” The linguistic fun and games up there are due to the fact that this still unnamed woman is, according to a report from…

Poison nut tree Strychnos nux-vomica. Credit: Danny Kessler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical EcologyResearchers from Jena show how the poison nut tree forms strychnine.A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena disclosed the complete biosynthetic pathway for the formation of strychnine in the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut). After identifying all genes involved in the biosynthesis of strychnine and other metabolites, the researchers expressed them in the model plant…

Over the last few years, as we have been able to peer back deeper and deeper into the early Universe, astronomers have been discovering something extremely puzzling.Before the Universe was a billion years old, giant black holes up to over a billion times the mass of the Sun had already somehow formed. Given what we know about black hole formation and growth, the presence and size of these behemoths is extremely challenging to explain. How did they get there, so soon after the Big Bang? And how did they get so danged big?…