Increase / With the Dread Wolf you take! BioWare Fans of BioWare’s Dragon Age series got a nice little surprise today, as the studio dropped a four-minute highlight reel at the all-virtual Gamescom 2020 that promised players that the next game is still in development, and that it will still …
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Scientists from the Brain, Body, and Self Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden equipped a couple of friends with video glasses so that they could see things from each other’s point of view. “To promote the illusion,” Science Daily reports, “they simultaneously applied touches to both participants on matching body …
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INmost everyone is familiar with the short-term symptoms of an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. These include fever, cough, breathing problems, fatigue, diarrhea, and other flu-like symptoms. While some doctors are alarmed about the potential of the infection to cause permanent organ damage, the popular belief of Covid-19 is that a small …
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This illustration shows two views of the active galaxy TXS 0128 + 554, about 500 million light-years away. Left: The galaxy’s central jets appear as if they were both at the same angle. The black hole, embedded in a disk of dust and gas, launches a few particles of particles …
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“Try not to understand it. Feel it, ”says a scientist earlier in the anonymous main character of John David Washington Tenet, as she teaches him how to use time-reversed objects. Her advice may be a metatextual line from Nolan, making the audience prime: Tenet examines not only time-reversed objects, but …
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