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How climate change is knocking natural events wildly out of sync

Life

How climate change is knocking natural events wildly out of sync

Climate change is throwing off the timing of key events in the natural world, from the flowering of plants to the migrations of birds and mammals. Now, ecologists are warning that this could spiral out of control and cause whole ecosystems to break down

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Feryal Özel on what the first two pictures of black holes tell us

Space

Feryal Özel on what the first two pictures of black holes tell us

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Why does time fly or drag? How emotions warp our temporal perceptions

Mind

Why does time fly or drag? How emotions warp our temporal perceptions

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How do we make the most of our time? The power of confronting death

Life

How do we make the most of our time? The power of confronting death

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5 Evolution - How long does evolution take? 2E8WW3F Time, traveling through space and time, 3d illustration

Earth

How long does evolution take? It happens on two different timescales

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8 Can we live without time?

Mind

Can we live without time? Not if we value a solid sense of self

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JILA?s three-dimensional (3-D) quantum gas atomic clock consists of a grid of light formed by three pairs of laser beams. A stack of two tables is used to configure optical components around a vacuum chamber. Shown here is the upper table, where lenses and other optics are mounted. A blue laser beam excites a cube-shaped cloud of strontium atoms located behind the round window in the middle of the table. Strontium atoms fluorescence strongly when excited with blue light.

Physics

Jun Ye interview: What use is the world's most accurate clock?

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Will time ever end? The answer lies in the death throes of the cosmos

Physics

Will time ever end? The answer lies in the death throes of the cosmos

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6 Will we ever unite physics? The infinite time is circulating in the universe, 3D illustration; Shutterstock ID 498879817; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Physics

Will we ever unite physics? Clocks in superposition could offer clues

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3 How Do We Sense Time? Mechanical brain, conceptual image. Composite image of coloured medical imagery of a human brain and skull, with cogs and gears representing concepts such as memory, time and mechanical brains. The imagery includes 3D computed tomography (CT) scans of the skull and 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. The scans are of a 30-year-old woman.

Mind

How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

Recent studies suggest there is not one part of the brain dedicated to measuring duration, as there is for senses like taste and smell. Instead, the passage of time is tracked by a network of “time cells”

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Physics

Could we ever go back in time? Relativity does not rule it out

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Physics

What is time? The mysterious essence of the fourth dimension

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Society

The rise of computer-generated, artificially intelligent influencers

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Life

Saving Virunga's endangered gorillas with green power and chocolate

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