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The Human Brain Looks Suspiciously Like the Universe, Which May Freak You Out. There are one too many similarities for this to be a coincidence. By Tim Childers Published: Nov 17, 2020 4:05 PM EST.
The universe looks like a giant brain. If it’s the brain, where’s the body? – Aine, age 12, Edinburgh, UK. Thanks for the question, Aine.
The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov. 16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered ...
An astrophysicist and neuroscientist teamed up to compare similarities between the universe and networks of neurons in the brain. Despite the substantial difference in scale, the two complex ...
Altogether, the cosmic web looks somewhat like a human brain. To be more precise, the distribution of matter in the universe looks a little like the “connectome,” the network of nerve ...
The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered ...
The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered ...
Our bodies are the best technology we’ve ever taken for granted, according to Bill Bryson’s 20th book, “The Body: A Guide for Occupants” ($30, Doubleday), which will be released Oct. 15 ...
Ms. Levin talked about her book, [How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time and a Finite Space], ... scientists may someday be able to accurately describe what the universe looks like.
There are a few models of how dark energy could work, with one similar explanation to ideas proposed by the standard model involving quantum fluctuations, though in the holographic principle these ...
The human brain is a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) mass of jelly-like fats and tissues—yet it's the most complex of all known living structures. Photograph by Robert Clark ...