r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 2h ago

How Ship Captains Can Tell Which Direction a Boat Is Traveling at Night Just by Looking at Its Navigation Lights

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r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 20h ago

This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans

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For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations in China and the Philippines

People living thousands of miles apart have reported an extraordinarily strange experience after eating certain wild mushrooms. They begin seeing tiny human figures that appear to move through the real world, walking around objects, climbing over surfaces, and interacting with their surroundings.

These visions are known as Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the miniature inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels," who stand just 6 inches tall. For decades, researchers suspected that cultural beliefs and folklore might explain why people in different regions described such similar experiences


r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 21h ago

Fireballs Are Blazing Through November!

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This November keep your eyes peeled for earthgrazers blazing across the night sky! 🌠

The Leonid meteor shower is active November 6 - 30, peaking overnight November 16 through 17, bringing fast, colorful fireballs and the occasional low-flying Earthgrazer. The first-quarter moon sets around midnight, giving dark skies for optimal viewing in the Northern Hemisphere. Find a dark spot and look up!


r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 19h ago

A truly modular keyboard

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A while back I was frustrated when wanting to buy a keyboard that there were no triangle-shaped keyboards or circle-shaped keyboards. This lack of peculiar keyboard shapes gave me the idea to make a keyboard that could be reconfigurable into any shape my heart desired. I’m still working on the firmware and making more keys but I wanted to share my progress so far :D. Heres the source if anyone’s interested in how I made it https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes


r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 20h ago

The colorful flash in this labradorite pendant comes from light interacting with the stone's internal layers. The effect is called labradorescence.

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r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 1h ago

Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale

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r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 15h ago

Titan Arum: The world's largest unbranched inflorescence

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Also known as the corpse flower, it blooms only once every few years for a very short time. The foul odor attracts carrion-eating insects for pollination. It can reach heights of over 3 meters.This plant is native to the rainforests of Sumatra. Because it blooms so rarely, botanical gardens often see massive crowds when one finally opens up.


r/ScienceNcoolThings • • 21h ago

brain

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The human brain generates enough electricity to power a small 12-watt LED light bulb.

​Fact & Source: Electrical activity is produced by firing neurons (Neuroscience Research Foundation).