Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:

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and here a more detailed report from physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html
“A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.”

Awesome video of a NASA experiment at the space station. Wave propagation is investigated at free floating water spheres:

David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?
David starts his journey in Darwin’s home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of [...]

Slashdot brings us another interesting post where Researcher discuss, if the universe may be a hologram and if a german experiment might have stumbled upon a fundamental limit where space-time stops behaving like a smooth continuum and instead dissolves into “grains.” Check it out.

Very nice symbiosis of design and technology: The Air Jelly

Much more flying fish can be found here and here.

That will blow your mind.Watch this snippet from CBSs 60 minutes. It brings us a story about a man controlling a PC with his brain only. Merging man and machine is getting into reach. So feel welcome to witness the interface of the future:
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… and here is why: Because of
(1) the way, the brain works
(2) the way, the brain is manipulated with brainwashing techniques a la Edward Bernaise.

The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum – in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year – with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the [...]

Stand in awe when Biologists are on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life.

Bonus: Hardware evolution
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