“Does the human brain resemble the Universe?” teases an announcement that an astrophysicist of the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon of the University of Verona “compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the cosmic network of galaxies…and surprising similarities emerged.” Slashdot reader Iwastheone shares their report: Despite the substantial difference in scale between the two networks…
Tag: Crossroads
Should Computer Programming Classes Focus on Projects Instead of ‘Logic Puzzles’?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Writing in the November Communications of the ACM, MIT’s Mitchel Resnick and Natalie Rusk explain that the educational use of coding in schools is at a crossroads. The good news? “School systems and policymakers are embracing the idea that coding can and should be for everyone.” The bad news? “In many places, coding is being introduced…
Physicists search for imprints left by dark matter haloes as they swoosh through galactic gas
The search for dark matter is at a crossroads. Now, physicists have a new way to tell what the invisible stuff is made of. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dark-matter-haloes-imprint-galactic-gas.html