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The rotating triangles which is inscribed on surface of Regular Octahedron make Regular Octahedron, Regular Isosahedron, and Cuboctahedron!
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What is the weather like on Neptune?
Neptune has the wildest and strangest weather in the entire Solar System. It has huge storms with extremely high winds. Its atmosphere has dark spots which come and go, and bright cirrus-like clouds which change rapidly. Neptune has an average temperature of -353 Fahrenheit (-214 Celsius). On Earth sunlight drives our weather, but Neptune is so far away that it receives a thousand times less sunlight than Earth does. How Neptune gets the energy for such intense weather is still a mystery.
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Yale Neuroscientists Can Now Determine Human Intelligence Through Brain Scans
neuroscientists can determine one’s intelligence through a brain scan, as sci-fi as that sounds. Not only that, it’s only a matter of time before they are able to tell each individual’s set of aptitudes and shortcomings, simply from scanning their brain. Researchers at Yale led the study. They interpreted intelligence in this case as abstract reasoning, also known as fluid intelligence. This is the ability to recognize patterns, solve problems, and identify relationships. Fluid intelligence is known to be a consistent predictor of academic performance. Yet, abstract reasoning is difficult to teach, and standardized tests often miss it.
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33 Science Facts We Didn't Know At The Start Of 2016 →
1. Gravitational waves exist.
2. There’s an Earth-like planet just four light years away.
3. It’s possible for a computer to beat a human world champion at Go.
4. The Zika virus does indeed cause microcephaly, a medical condition in which the brain doesn’t develop properly.
5. It turns out there are actually four species of giraffe, not just one.
6. Some red squirrels in Britain carry a strain of leprosy seen in humans in the Middle Ages.
7. There’s a 54 billion cubic feet reserve of helium gas in Tanzania.
8. There’s an underwater “lost city” off a Greek island that is actually just a group of naturally-formed weirdly uniform rocks.
9. There’s a mysterious, slow-moving deep-sea shark that has been found to live for nearly 400 years.
10. Human penises might have lost their baculum, aka penis bone, when our species became monogamous.
11. The largest prime known prime number is 274,207,281 − 1. It’s 5 million digits longer than the previous record prime number.
12. There might be a ninth planet in our solar system, 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting 20 times farther away than Neptune, on average.
13. Earth has got a sort of second moon (more accurately, a quasi-satellite) with the catchy name (469219) 2016 HO3.
14. Ninety-nine million years ago a little dinosaur got its tail trapped in amber, and its tail feathers were preserved.
15. Pluto’s atmosphere is more compact and cold than we previously thought.
16. And around the dwarf planet’s famous heart-shaped region, there’s a huge variety of terrains.
17. A bunch of stars went supernova close to Earth 3.2 and 1.7 million years ago.
18. The lost Philae spacecraft’s final resting place on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is in the shadow of a boulder.
19. There is a giant planet with three suns 320 light years away.
20. Ducklings can recognise the concepts of “same” and “different”.
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snowflake crystallization microscopy (x)
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Jupiter’s Galilean Moons
Io - Jupiter’s volcanic moon
Europa - Jupiter’s icy moon
Ganymede - Jupiter’s (and the solar system’s) largest moon
Callisto - Jupiter’s heavily cratered moon
Made using: Celestia, Screen2Gif & GIMP
Based on: @spaceplasma‘s solar system gifs
Profile sources: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html
Fonte: space-facts.com
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